Post by FilmFlaneur on Nov 17, 2020 14:39:50 GMT
For anyone who is not a self-appointed expert, pages from this book explaining her methodology and range of research can be found here:
books.google.co.uk/books/about/Speak_of_the_Devil.html?id=JBxfvDeQdmoC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
I mention this title specifically as it is fine antidote to the 'survivor memoirs' and more credulous account of the phenomenon, many of which have been critically lacerated by professionals (EG Sinason's Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse)
That's my methodology. It should be yours.
Here's another authoritative conclusion, again based on a wide appraisal, this time from law enforcement:
Kenneth Lanning published the definitive official FBI report on 'Satanic Crime' in 1992 ('Satanic, Occult, Ritualist Crime: A Law Enforcement Perspective' The National Center for the Analysis of Violet Crime at the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia) which reviewed all then known cases and concluded that:
"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. The statistical odds are that such abusers are members of mainstream religions... After all the hype and hysteria is put aside, the realisation sets in that most satanic or Occult activity involves the commission of NO crimes and that which does, usually involves the commission of relatively minor crimes such as trespassing, vandalism , animal cruelty and petty thievery... 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 "
www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/136592NCJRS.pdf
QED.
You seem to be making an argument from credulity for reasons which are more psychological, one suspects, than criminological. That's your prerogative. But unless you can substantiate the claim that the panic over Satanic Abuse has resulted from a wave of proof and thence successful prosecutions, moreover ones which have stood the test of time, then all we have as usual from you is just the usual sweeping opinion. And, as usual, you are welcome to it.