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==Books==
==Books==
Brown, D. (1994). Satanic ritual abuse: A therapist’s handbook. Denver, CO: Blue Moon Press.
*Bibby PA (1996) ''Organised Abuse: The Current Debate.'' Aldershot, England: Arena. ISBN 1-85742-284-8.  
 
*Bromley DG; Richardson JR & Best J (1991) ''The Satanism scare.'' New York: A. de Gruyter. ISBN 0-202-30379-9. 
Gould, C. (1992) Diagnosis and treatment of ritually abused children in Sakheim, D.K. (1992). Out of Darkness: Exploring Satanism and Ritual Abuse. Lexington Books. ISBN 0-669-26962-X.
*Clapton G (1993) ''Satanic Abuse Controversy: Social Workers and the Social Work Press'' (Essential Issues in the 1990s). University of North London Press. ISBN 1-85377-154-6.
 
*de Young, Mary (2004). ''The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic.'' ISBN 0786418303
{{cite book    | last =Johnston    | first =J.   | authorlink =     | coauthors =    | title =The Edge of Evil: The Rise of Satanism in North America    | publisher =[[Word Pub]]    | date =1989    | location =Dallas, TX    | pages =276    | url =    | doi =    | id =      | isbn = }}
*Gould C (1992) ''Diagnosis and treatment of ritually abused children in Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland and Company. ISBN 0786418303.
 
*Hicks RD(1991) ''Pursuit of Satan: The Police and the Occult'' Prometheus Books ISBN 0-87975-604-7 [http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=129704 NCJRS Abstract] ''("This book critically analyzes individual law enforcement agencies' focus on Satanism and the occult and concludes that no evidence exists of a nationwide criminal conspiracy of Satanists and devil-worshipers. The analysis emphasizes that vandalism, child abuse, serial murders, and other crimes are all serious problems. In addition, the model proposing a connection between Satanism and criminality is expedient largely because of its simplicity as a means of explaining such complex problems as drug abuse, adolescent suicide, and sexual molestation. Unfortunately, poorly trained therapists and certain police officers have used the media to focus attention on satanic crime despite a lack of evidence of a cult connection. Their misinformation and speculations produces unjustified fear in their communities.")''
Lockwood, C. (1993) Other altars: Roots and Realities of Cultic and Satanic Ritual Abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder. Minneapolis, MN: [[Compcare Publishers]].
*Lyons A (1988) ''Satan Wants You: The Cult of Devil Worship in America'' Mysterious Press ISBN 0-89296-217-8 [http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx? NCJRS Abstract] ''("This analysis of the nature and role of Satanic cults in the United States in recent years explores its origins and history, the reasons for its public emergence in recent years, and its current characteristics. Satanism has a variety of connotations: the renunciation and denial of a Christian God, the ascendence of evil over good, the forces of darkness, the use of ritual evocations of demons in rooms lit only by black candles, and sacrifices and sexual orgies. Satanic religions are as old as monotheism and have their origins in Persia of the sixth century. However, Satanism is not a worldwide conspiracy. Instead, like other occult and magical belief systems, it is a response to social tensions and has emerged during time social fragmentation. The vast majority of Satanists belong to the neo-Satanic churches and represent no threat to society. Satanic and non-Satanic religious cults that advocate and practice violence should be watched by authorities, but care must be taken to assure that innocent religious groups are not persecuted simply for having unorthodox beliefs. We must also recognize that many theories, like that of a child-molesting conspiracy of Satanists, are not supported by any evidence but are the product of a sensationalist media.")''
 
*Noblitt JR and Noblitt PP (Eds) (2008) ''Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social, and Political Considerations'' Robert Reed, ISBN 1934759120
Nathan, D. & M. Snedeker. (1995) ''Satan's silence: ritual abuse and the making of a modern American witch hunt.'' Basic Books. "the authors show how children's testimony was led; nevertheless, civil libertarians shied away from challenging such cases: "demonization of child sexual abuse as society's ultimate evil has rendered it so holy as to be virtually immune to reasoned analysis." The authors believe that real sexual abuse, especially incest, is underreported, and recommend that investigators be better trained as well as granted only limited immunity from malpractice. More broadly, they see a need to educate children in such a way that they develop psychological and sexual integrity." ''Publishers' Weekly''.
*Noblitt JR and Perskin PS ''Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America'' Greenwood Press ISBN 0275966658 Reviewed [http://cjr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/citation/21/1/103 here] by Joel Best in ''Criminal Justice Review'' 21:103-5 (1996) and [http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/52/7/978 here] by Kenneth Fletcher in ''Psychiatr Serv'' 52:978-9 (2001)
 
*Richardson JT, Best J,  Bromley DG (1991)''The Satanism scare'' Aldine Transaction  ISBN-10: 0202303799
{{cite book    | last =Ryder     | first =D.   | authorlink =     | coauthors =     | title =Breaking the Circle of Satanic Ritual Abuse: Recognizing and Recovering from the Hidden Trauma   | publisher =[[CompCare Publishers]]     | date =1992    | location =Minneapolis, MN    | pages =265   isbn =0896382583 }}
*{{cite book    | last =Ryder   | first =D    | authorlink =   | coauthors =   | title =Breaking the Circle of Satanic Ritual Abuse: Recognizing and Recovering from the Hidden Trauma | publisher =[[CompCare Publishers]]   | date =1992    | location =Minneapolis, MN    | pages =265 |  isbn =0896382583 }}(reviewed by Riley, E.A. (1992) in ''J Traumatic Stress'' [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/112447634/abstract])
 
*Waterman, Jill; Kelly, Robert J.;Oliveri, M. K.;and McCord, Jane (1993). ''Behind the Playground Walls - Sexual Abuse in Preschools.'' New York, London: The Guilford Press, 284-8. ISBN 0-89862-523-8.
{{cite book    | last =Sinason    | first =    | authorlink =    | coauthors =    | title =Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse    | publisher =[[Routledge]]  | date =1994    | location =    | pages =320    | url =    | doi =    | id =      | isbn =0-415-10543-9}}
*Sakheim, D.K. (1992). ''Out of Darkness: Exploring Satanism and Ritual Abuse.'' Lexington Books. ISBN 0-669-26962-X.
 
*Watters, Ethan; Ofshe, Richard (1994). ''Making monsters: false memories, psychotherapy, and sexual hysteria.'' New York: Charles Scribner's.  ISBN 0-684-19698-0. [http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/333/2/132-a Reviewed] in the ''New England Journal of Medicine'' ''("There is nothing dispassionate about this book. Ofshe and Watters are angry, and for good reason: recovered memory is not merely another therapeutic fad. In their view, it is an unscientific and dangerous practice")''
Waterman, Jill; Kelly, Robert J.;Oliveri, M. K.;and McCord, Jane (1993). Behind the Playground Walls - Sexual Abuse in Preschools. New York, London: The Guilford Press, 284-8. ISBN 0-89862-523-8.
 
=Secondary sources (Peer-reviewed reviews)=
Bernet W, Chang DK. (1997) The differential diagnosis of ritual abuse allegations. ''J Forensic Sci'' 42:32-8 PMID 8988572 ''("This paper clarifies the behaviors that represent or may be mistaken for ritual abuse: Cult-based ritual abuse, pseudoritualistic abuse, activities by organized satanic groups, repetitive psychopathological abuse, sexual abuse by pedophiles, child pornography portraying ritual abuse, distorted memory, false memory, false report due to a severe mental disorder, pseudologia phantastica, adolescent behavior simulating ritual abuse, epidemic hysteria, deliberate lying, and hoaxes.")''
 
Spanos NP ''et al.'' (1994) Past-life identities, UFO abductions, and satanic ritual abuse: the social construction of memories. ''Int J Clin Exp Hypn'' 42:433-46. PMID 7960296 ''("People sometimes fantasize entire complex scenarios and later define these experiences as memories of actual events rather than as imaginings. This article examines research associated with three such phenomena: past-life experiences, UFO alien contact and abduction, and memory reports of childhood ritual satanic abuse. In each case, elicitation of the fantasy events is frequently associated with hypnotic procedures and structured interviews which provide strong and repeated demands for the requisite experiences, and which then legitimate the experiences as "real memories." Research associated with these phenomena supports the hypothesis that recall is reconstructive and organized in terms of current expectations and beliefs.")''
 
Young WC (1993) Sadistic ritual abuse. An overview in detection and management. ''Prim Care'' 20:447-58. PMID 8356163 ''("Sadistic ritual abuse, including satanic cult abuse, is emerging as a syndrome among people with severe dissociative disorders, including multiple personality disorder. ...")''
 
Valente S (2000) Controversies and challenges of ritual abuse. ''J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv'' 38:8-17. PMID: 11105292 ''(" ... nurses have a responsibility to detect clues to abuse, diagnose the child's responses, and recognize controversial issues regarding ritual abuse. To evaluate ritual abuse, nurses should avoid interview strategies that influence the child's recall (e.g., coaching, suggestions) and recognize that some reports are discounted as false memories because they emerge from fantasy, distortions, innocent deceptions, false beliefs, lies, or adult coaching.")''
 
 
==Articles==
Goodyear-Smith FA ''et al.'' (1998) Parents and other relatives accused of sexual abuse on the basis of recovered memories: a New Zealand family survey. ''N Z Med J'' 111:225-8. PMID 9695750  ''( To survey New Zealand families where an alleged perpetrator and/or other family member denies an accusation involving the childhood molestation of one family member by another, based on a memory recovered in adulthood...Many accusations involved events of low base-rate probability including satanic ritual abuse. ... The data suggest that it is unlikely that many, if not most, of the memories of child sexual abuse recovered in adulthood are a true reflection of history'')''
 
Goodman GS ''et al.'' 1997Children's religious knowledge: implications for understanding satanic ritual abuse allegations. ''Child Abuse Negl'' 21:1111-30.PMID 9422831 ''("... children do not generally possess sufficient knowledge of satanic ritual abuse to make up false allegations on their own. However, many children have knowledge of satanism as well as nonreligious knowledge of violence, death, and illegal activities. It is possible that such knowledge could prompt an investigation of satanic ritual abuse or possibly serve as a starting point from which an allegation is erected")
 
Bottoms BL ''et al.'' (1997) “Jurors’ reactions to satanic ritual abuse allegations.” Child Abuse and Neglect 21(9):845-59.''("... highly bizarre details may be discounted by jurors (particularly less religious jurors), but that jurors may set aside their skepticism of satanic ritual details and make judgments about child sexual abuse cases based on their perceptions of the credibility of nonsatanic allegations of harm.")''
 
Bucky SF, Dalenberg C (1992) The relationship between training of mental health professionals and the reporting of ritual abuse and multiple personality disorder symptomatology. Journal of Psychology & Theology, 20(3), Special issue: Satanic ritual abuse: The current state of knowledge. 233-8.
 
Fraser GA (1990). “Satanic ritual abuse: A cause of multiple personality disorder”. Special issue: In the shadow of Satan: The ritual abuse of children. Journal of Child and Youth Care, 55-60
 
Gelb JL.1993 “Multiple personality disorder and satanic ritual abuse,” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 27:701-8 
 
Gould C (1992) “Ritual abuse, multiplicity, and mind-control.” Special Issue: Satanic ritual abuse: The current state of knowledge. J Psychol Theol 20:194-6
 
Gould C (1995). Denying ritual abuse of children. J Psychohistory, 22:329-39. [http://www.geocities.com/kidhistory/denyra.htm] "The evidence is rapidly accumulating that the problem of ritual abuse is considerable in scope and extremely grave in its consequences Among 2,709 members of the American Psychological Association who responded to a poll, 2,292 cases of ritual abuse were reported (Bottoms, Shaver, & Goodman, 1993). In 1992 alone, Childhelp USA logged 1,741 calls pertaining to ritual abuse, Monarch Resources of Los Angeles logged approximately 5,000, Real Active Survivors tallied nearly 3,600, Justus Unlimited of Colorado received almost 7,000, and Looking Up of Maine handled around 6,000. Even allowing for some of these calls to have been made by people who assist survivors but are not themselves survivors, and for some survivors to have called more that one helpline or made multiple calls to the same helpline, these numbers suggest that at a minimum there must be tens of thousands of survivors of ritual abuse in the United States."
 
Jonker, Fred. “Reaction to Benjamin Rossen’s investigation of satanic ritual abuse in Oude Pekela,” Special Issue: “Satanic ritual abuse: The current state of knowledge.” Psychology and Theology 20(3) 1992 pp. 260-2
 
Kent S (1993). “Deviant Scripturalism and Ritual Satanic Abuse. II: Possible Masonic, Mormon, Magick, and Pagan influences”. Religion 23(4):355-367
 
Kent S (1993). “Deviant Scripturalism and Ritual Satanic Abuse Part One: Possible Judeo-Christian Influences”. Religion 23(23):229-241.
 
Lanning KV (1992) FBI Report [http://www.rickross.com/reference/satanism/satanism1.html Satanic Ritual Abuse ] Supervisory Special Agent Behavioral Science Unit National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. quotes -
"This report documents FBI investigations into allegations of satanic ritual abuse, and essentially describes the consistent lack of evidence supporting these allegations. Extracts from conclusions: ''"There are many possible alternative answers to the question of why victims are alleging things that don't seem to be true. The first step in finding those answers is to admit the possibility that some of what the victims describe may not have happened.  ... Some of what the victims allege may be true and accurate, some may be misperceived or distorted, some may be screened or symbolic, and some may be "contaminated" or false. ...The amount of "ritual" child abuse going on in this country depends on how you define the term. One documented example of what I might call "ritual" child abuse was the horror chronicled in the book A Death in White Bear Lake (Siegal, 1990.) The abuse in this case, however, had little to do with anyone's spiritual belief system. There are many children in the United States who, starting early in their lives, are severely psychologically, physically, and sexually traumatized by angry, sadistic parents or other adults. Such abuse, however, is not perpetrated only or primarily by satanists. ...Until hard evidence is obtained and corroborated, the public should not be frightened into believing that babies are being bred and eaten, that 50,000 missing children are being murdered in human sacrifices, or that satanists are taking over America's day care centers or institutions. No one can prove with absolute certainty that such activity has not occurred. The burden of proof, however, as it would be in a criminal prosecution, is on those who claim that it has occurred."''
 
Leavitt F, Labott SM (2000) The role of media and hospital exposure on Rorschach response patterns by patients reporting satanic ritual abuse.”  American Journal of Forensic Psychology 18:35-55.
 
Leavitt F, Labott SM (1998). Revision of the Word Association Test for assessing associations of patients reporting Satanic ritual abuse in childhood. J Clin Psychol 54:933-43.
 
Leavitt F (1994) Clinical correlates of alleged satanic abuse and less controversial sexual molestation. ''Child Abuse Negl'' 18(4):387-92. PMID 8187024 ''("Patients alleging satanic ritual abuse reported higher levels of dissociation, in the range often exhibited by patients with multiple personality disorders.")''
 
McCulley D (1994) Satanic ritual abuse: A question of memory ''Psychol Theol'' 22:167-72
 
McCully, RS (1978) The laugh of satan: A study of a familial murderer. ''Personality Assessment'' 42:81-91
 
McCully RS. “Satan’s eclipse: A familial murderer six years later.” British J Projective Psychology and Personality 125(2) 1980 pp. 13-7
 
McShane C (1993) “Satanic sexual abuse: A paradigm” Affilia J Women Social Work 8


Mulhern S (1994) Satanism, ritual abuse, and multiple personality disorder: a sociohistorical perspective.''Int J Clin Exp Hypn'' 42:265-88. PMID 7960286 ''("During the past decade in North America, a growing number of mental health professionals have reported that between 25% and 50% of their patients in treatment for multiple personality disorder (MPD) have recovered early childhood traumatic memories of ritual torture, incestuous rape, sexual debauchery, sacrificial murder, infanticide, and cannibalism perpetrated by members of clandestine satanic cults. Although hundreds of local and federal police investigations have failed to corroborate patients' therapeutically constructed accounts, because the satanic etiology of MPD is logically coherent with the neodissociative, traumatic theory of psychopathology, conspiracy theory has emerged as the nucleus of a consistent pattern of contemporary clinical interpretation. Resolutely logical and thoroughly operational, ultrascientific psychodemonology remains paradoxically oblivious to its own irrational premises. When the hermetic logic of conspiracy theory is stripped away by historical and socio/psychological analysis, however, the hypothetical perpetrators of satanic ritual abuse simply disappear, leaving in their wake the very real human suffering of all those who have been caught up in the social delusion.")''


Rockwell RB (1994). One psychiatrists view of Satanic ritual abuse. ''J Psychohistory'' 21:443-60.
Craighead, W. E.; Corsini, R.J.; Nemeroff, C. B. (2002) The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science Published by John Wiley and Sons ISBN 0471270830 - Sadistic Ritual Abuse (also known as Satanic ritual abuse or ritual abuse) (p.1435 - 1438) [http://books.google.com/books?id=JQMRmyOfpJ8C&pg=PT82&lpg=PT85&dq=treating+abuse+today&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html]


Rogers ML 1992“The Oude Pekela incident: A case study of alleged SRA from the Netherlands.” Psychology and Theology, 20:257-59
==Related articles not cited in Main article==
'''This selection of academic articles draws attention to issues that are not covered in the main article.'''


Van Benschoten SC (1990) Multiple Personality Disorder and Satanic Ritual Abuse: the Issue Of Credibility ''Dissociation''. III, No. 1 [http://www.empty-memories.nl/dis_90/vanbenschoten_sra.pdf] ''("... The MPI) patient's descriptions of experiences within the satanic group can neither be accepted as literally accurate in all respects, nor unequivocally dismissed as unt rue. The literal truth is intricately and inextricably woven together with threads of misperception, suggestion, illusion, dissociation, and induced trance phenomena, to form the complex web which becomes the survivor's memories. Objective reality and experiential truth simply can not be disentangled with certainty.")''
*Cohn N (1970)[http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=FG0ds-lZ9gkC&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&dq=satanism&ots=shxzgBmQWf&sig=ix7M0NJletiAaCiqN5YhyedJKOI The Myth of Satan and his Human Servants] N Cohn - in ''Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations'' by Mary Douglas
*Goodman GS ''et al.'' 1997 Children's religious knowledge: implications for understanding satanic ritual abuse allegations. ''Child Abuse Negl'' 21:1111-30. PMID 9422831 ''("... children do not generally possess sufficient knowledge of satanic ritual abuse to make up false allegations on their own. However, many children have knowledge of satanism as well as nonreligious knowledge of violence, death, and illegal activities. It is possible that such knowledge could prompt an investigation of satanic ritual abuse or possibly serve as a starting point from which an allegation is erected")''
*Sjöberg RL (2004) False allegations of satanic abuse: Case studies from the witch panic in Rättvik 1670–71 ''European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry'' 6:219-26 ''("The creation of false memories, psychiatric symptoms and false allegations of satanic child abuse during an outbreak of witch hysteria in Sweden in the seventeenth century are described and related to contemporary issues in child testimonies. Case studies of 28 children and 14 adults are presented. The mechanisms underlying the spread of these allegations, as well as the reactions and influence of the adult world on the children's testimonies, are discussed.")''
*Herman S (2005) Improving decision making in forensic child sexual abuse evaluations. ''Law Hum Behav'' 29:87-120. PMID 15865333 ''("Mental health professionals can assist legal decision makers in cases of allegations of child sexual abuse by collecting data using forensic interviews, psychological testing, and record reviews, and by summarizing relevant findings from social science research. Significant controversy surrounds another key task performed by mental health professionals in most child sexual abuse evaluations, i.e., deciding whether or not to substantiate unconfirmed abuse allegations. The available evidence indicates that, on the whole, these substantiation decisions currently lack adequate psychometric reliability and validity: an analysis of empirical research findings leads to the conclusion that at least 24% of all of these decisions are either false positive or false negative errors.")''
*Jenkins P, Maier-Katkin D (1992) Satanism: Myth and reality in a contemporary moral panic ''Crime, Law and Social Change'' 17: 53-75 [http://www.springerlink.com/content/k6g4553n0w7u8523/ (''"In the last decade], there have been many allegations about the prevalence of occult or Satanic criminality, which is believed to be involved in many offenses ranging from vandalism to child abuse and serial murder. Some have advocated the creation of specialized police units to combat the supposed threat. On the other hand, most of the alleged evils are very poorly substantiated, and highly questionable statements have been widely circulated. In fact, the current concern about the occult appears to have all the hallmarks of a classic moral panic, where a peripheral issue is suddenly perceived as a major social menace. This paper discusses the limited foundation of truth underlying the present crime-wave; and suggests that the panic reflects the moral and political agenda of extremists from the fundamentalist religious Right.")''
*Wyatt, W Joseph (2002) [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4032/is_200210/ai_n9136028/pg_3/?tag=content;col1 What was under the McMartin preschool? A review and behavioral analysis of the "tunnels" find] ''Behavior and Social Issues''  Fall 2002. This detailed analysis debunks the [http://www.scribd.com/doc/10252626/Archaeological-Investigations-of-the-McMartin-Preschool-Site-by-E-Gary-Stickel-PhD unpublished], but widely [http://www.geocities.com/kidhistory/mcmartin.htm circulated], evidence for the supposed existence of tunnels in the McMartin Preschool abuse allegations.)'' 
*Cheit RE (2003) What hysteria? A systematic study of newspaper coverage of accused child molesters, ''Child Abuse & Neglect'' [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V7N-48NC1DN-8&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=65202c87aab1224ac207d3df874938d1  27:607-23] ''("Generalizing about the nature of child molestation cases in criminal court on the basis of newspaper coverage is inappropriate. The coverage is less extensive than often claimed, and it is skewed in ways that are typical of the mass media.")''


Coons PM (1994) Reports of satanic ritual abuse: further implications about pseudomemories. ''Percept Mot Skills'' 78:1376-8. PMID 7936968
[https://wisdom.biola.edu/jpt/searchresults.cfm Special Issue] of ''J Psychol Theol '' on Satanic ritual abuse: The current state of knowledge. volume 20 (1992)

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  • Bibby PA (1996) Organised Abuse: The Current Debate. Aldershot, England: Arena. ISBN 1-85742-284-8.
  • Bromley DG; Richardson JR & Best J (1991) The Satanism scare. New York: A. de Gruyter. ISBN 0-202-30379-9.
  • Clapton G (1993) Satanic Abuse Controversy: Social Workers and the Social Work Press (Essential Issues in the 1990s). University of North London Press. ISBN 1-85377-154-6.
  • de Young, Mary (2004). The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic. ISBN 0786418303
  • Gould C (1992) Diagnosis and treatment of ritually abused children in Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland and Company. ISBN 0786418303.
  • Hicks RD(1991) Pursuit of Satan: The Police and the Occult Prometheus Books ISBN 0-87975-604-7 NCJRS Abstract ("This book critically analyzes individual law enforcement agencies' focus on Satanism and the occult and concludes that no evidence exists of a nationwide criminal conspiracy of Satanists and devil-worshipers. The analysis emphasizes that vandalism, child abuse, serial murders, and other crimes are all serious problems. In addition, the model proposing a connection between Satanism and criminality is expedient largely because of its simplicity as a means of explaining such complex problems as drug abuse, adolescent suicide, and sexual molestation. Unfortunately, poorly trained therapists and certain police officers have used the media to focus attention on satanic crime despite a lack of evidence of a cult connection. Their misinformation and speculations produces unjustified fear in their communities.")
  • Lyons A (1988) Satan Wants You: The Cult of Devil Worship in America Mysterious Press ISBN 0-89296-217-8 NCJRS Abstract ("This analysis of the nature and role of Satanic cults in the United States in recent years explores its origins and history, the reasons for its public emergence in recent years, and its current characteristics. Satanism has a variety of connotations: the renunciation and denial of a Christian God, the ascendence of evil over good, the forces of darkness, the use of ritual evocations of demons in rooms lit only by black candles, and sacrifices and sexual orgies. Satanic religions are as old as monotheism and have their origins in Persia of the sixth century. However, Satanism is not a worldwide conspiracy. Instead, like other occult and magical belief systems, it is a response to social tensions and has emerged during time social fragmentation. The vast majority of Satanists belong to the neo-Satanic churches and represent no threat to society. Satanic and non-Satanic religious cults that advocate and practice violence should be watched by authorities, but care must be taken to assure that innocent religious groups are not persecuted simply for having unorthodox beliefs. We must also recognize that many theories, like that of a child-molesting conspiracy of Satanists, are not supported by any evidence but are the product of a sensationalist media.")
  • Noblitt JR and Noblitt PP (Eds) (2008) Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social, and Political Considerations Robert Reed, ISBN 1934759120
  • Noblitt JR and Perskin PS Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America Greenwood Press ISBN 0275966658 Reviewed here by Joel Best in Criminal Justice Review 21:103-5 (1996) and here by Kenneth Fletcher in Psychiatr Serv 52:978-9 (2001)
  • Richardson JT, Best J, Bromley DG (1991)The Satanism scare Aldine Transaction ISBN-10: 0202303799
  • Ryder, D (1992). Breaking the Circle of Satanic Ritual Abuse: Recognizing and Recovering from the Hidden Trauma. Minneapolis, MN: CompCare Publishers, 265. ISBN 0896382583. (reviewed by Riley, E.A. (1992) in J Traumatic Stress [1])
  • Waterman, Jill; Kelly, Robert J.;Oliveri, M. K.;and McCord, Jane (1993). Behind the Playground Walls - Sexual Abuse in Preschools. New York, London: The Guilford Press, 284-8. ISBN 0-89862-523-8.
  • Sakheim, D.K. (1992). Out of Darkness: Exploring Satanism and Ritual Abuse. Lexington Books. ISBN 0-669-26962-X.
  • Watters, Ethan; Ofshe, Richard (1994). Making monsters: false memories, psychotherapy, and sexual hysteria. New York: Charles Scribner's. ISBN 0-684-19698-0. Reviewed in the New England Journal of Medicine ("There is nothing dispassionate about this book. Ofshe and Watters are angry, and for good reason: recovered memory is not merely another therapeutic fad. In their view, it is an unscientific and dangerous practice")


Craighead, W. E.; Corsini, R.J.; Nemeroff, C. B. (2002) The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science Published by John Wiley and Sons ISBN 0471270830 - Sadistic Ritual Abuse (also known as Satanic ritual abuse or ritual abuse) (p.1435 - 1438) [2]

Related articles not cited in Main article

This selection of academic articles draws attention to issues that are not covered in the main article.

  • Cohn N (1970)The Myth of Satan and his Human Servants N Cohn - in Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations by Mary Douglas
  • Goodman GS et al. 1997 Children's religious knowledge: implications for understanding satanic ritual abuse allegations. Child Abuse Negl 21:1111-30. PMID 9422831 ("... children do not generally possess sufficient knowledge of satanic ritual abuse to make up false allegations on their own. However, many children have knowledge of satanism as well as nonreligious knowledge of violence, death, and illegal activities. It is possible that such knowledge could prompt an investigation of satanic ritual abuse or possibly serve as a starting point from which an allegation is erected")
  • Sjöberg RL (2004) False allegations of satanic abuse: Case studies from the witch panic in Rättvik 1670–71 European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 6:219-26 ("The creation of false memories, psychiatric symptoms and false allegations of satanic child abuse during an outbreak of witch hysteria in Sweden in the seventeenth century are described and related to contemporary issues in child testimonies. Case studies of 28 children and 14 adults are presented. The mechanisms underlying the spread of these allegations, as well as the reactions and influence of the adult world on the children's testimonies, are discussed.")
  • Herman S (2005) Improving decision making in forensic child sexual abuse evaluations. Law Hum Behav 29:87-120. PMID 15865333 ("Mental health professionals can assist legal decision makers in cases of allegations of child sexual abuse by collecting data using forensic interviews, psychological testing, and record reviews, and by summarizing relevant findings from social science research. Significant controversy surrounds another key task performed by mental health professionals in most child sexual abuse evaluations, i.e., deciding whether or not to substantiate unconfirmed abuse allegations. The available evidence indicates that, on the whole, these substantiation decisions currently lack adequate psychometric reliability and validity: an analysis of empirical research findings leads to the conclusion that at least 24% of all of these decisions are either false positive or false negative errors.")
  • Jenkins P, Maier-Katkin D (1992) Satanism: Myth and reality in a contemporary moral panic Crime, Law and Social Change 17: 53-75 ("In the last decade, there have been many allegations about the prevalence of occult or Satanic criminality, which is believed to be involved in many offenses ranging from vandalism to child abuse and serial murder. Some have advocated the creation of specialized police units to combat the supposed threat. On the other hand, most of the alleged evils are very poorly substantiated, and highly questionable statements have been widely circulated. In fact, the current concern about the occult appears to have all the hallmarks of a classic moral panic, where a peripheral issue is suddenly perceived as a major social menace. This paper discusses the limited foundation of truth underlying the present crime-wave; and suggests that the panic reflects the moral and political agenda of extremists from the fundamentalist religious Right.")
  • Wyatt, W Joseph (2002) What was under the McMartin preschool? A review and behavioral analysis of the "tunnels" find Behavior and Social Issues Fall 2002. This detailed analysis debunks the unpublished, but widely circulated, evidence for the supposed existence of tunnels in the McMartin Preschool abuse allegations.)
  • Cheit RE (2003) What hysteria? A systematic study of newspaper coverage of accused child molesters, Child Abuse & Neglect 27:607-23 ("Generalizing about the nature of child molestation cases in criminal court on the basis of newspaper coverage is inappropriate. The coverage is less extensive than often claimed, and it is skewed in ways that are typical of the mass media.")

Special Issue of J Psychol Theol on Satanic ritual abuse: The current state of knowledge. volume 20 (1992)

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