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(New York: Aldine, 1989); Henry Jenkins, Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).

25 Hiroshi Fukurai et al., “Sociologists in Action: The McMartin Sexual Abuse Case, Litigation, Justice, and Mass Hysteria,” American Sociologist 25 (1994): 44-71; Nathan and Snedeker, Satan’s Silence, p. 88 (quotes from, respectively, those two sources); David Shaw, “Reporter’s Early Exclusives Triggered a Media Frenzy,” Los Angeles Times, 20 January 1990, p. A1.

26 Nathan and Snedeker, Satan’s Silence; survey cited in Fukurai et al., “Sociologists in Action.”

27 Lizette Alvarez, “House Passes Bill to Confront Pedophiles Who Use Internet,” New York Times, 12 June 1998, p. A17.

28 Ibid.; Mark Clayton, “‘Off-Line’ Hazards Lie in Web’s Links, Lures,” Christian Science Monitor, 8 August 1996, p. 10; ABC, “20/20,” 31 October 1997. See also Wendy Cole, “The Marquis de Cyberspace,” Time, 3 July 1995, p. 43; NBC, “Dateline,” 16 June 1995; NBC, “Today,” 17 September 1998.

29 John Rather, “A Look at Perils the Internet Poses to Children,” New York Times (Long Island Edition), 12 October 1997, sec. 14, p. 1; Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “Undercover on the Dark Side of Cyberspace,” Washington Post, 2 January 1996, p. D1; William Rashbaum and Helen Kennedy, “Talkin’ Dirty,” New York Daily News, 15 September 1995, p. 6; Jon Jeter, “FBI Agents Posed as Teenagers ... ,” Washington Post, 15 September 1995, p. A3. See also “Why Pedophiles Go On-line,” Redbook, April 1997, p. 102.

30 Clayton, “‘Off-Line’ Hazards”; Rather, “Perils the Internet Poses”; ABC, “20/20,” 31 October 1997; Cori Anne Natoli, “FBI Knew of Manzie’s Cry for Help,” Asbury Park Press, 5 April 1998, p. A1. See also Joan Feldman, “Computer Detectives Uncover Smoking Guns,” Computerworld,9 June 1997, pp. 1, 26.

31 Quote from Chandrasekaran, “Dark Side of Cyberspace.”

32 Steven Levy, “Did the Net Kill Eddie?” Newsweek, 13 October 1997 (contains quotes). See also Terri Somers, “Manzie’s Alleged Abuser Faults Police for Slaying,” Asbury Park Press, 1 July 1998, p. A1; Jim Curran, “Insanity Defense Planned for Teen in Boy’s Killing,” Bergen Record, 28 April 1998, p. A3.

33 Kim Murphy, “Youngsters Falling Prey to Seducers in Computer Web Crime,” Los Angeles Times, 11 June 1995, p. A1. See also National Public Radio, “All Things Considered,” 31 August, 1993.

34 National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Study Findings: National Study of the Incidence and Severity of Child Abuse and Neglect (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 1988); Lisa A. Fontes, ed., Sexual Abuse in Nine North American Cultures (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995); Carole Jenny et al., “Are Children at Risk for Sexual Abuse by Homosexuals?” Pediatrics 94 (1994): 41-44; Leslie Margolin, “Child Sexual Abuse by Uncles,” Child Abuse and Neglect 18 (1994): 215-24; Murray A. Straus and Richard Gelles, Physical Violence in American Families (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1990).

35 John Dreese, “The Other Victims of Priest Pedophilia,” Commonweal 121 (22 April 1994): 11-15.

36 Andrew M. Greeley, Fall from Grace (New York: Putnam, 1993); idem, “Priestly Silence on Pedophilia,” New York Times, 13 March 1992, p. A31; idem, “How Serious Is the Problem of Sexual Abuse by Clergy?” America 168 (20 March 1993): 6-11.

37 James L. Franklin, “Priest Puts Number of Abused at 100,000,” Boston Globe, 19 March 1993, p. 14; Philip Murnion et al., “Regarding A. Greeley’s Data on Sexual Abuse by Priests,” America 168 (17 April 1993): 21—22. On methodology issues see also Dennis Howitt, Pedophilesand Sexual Offenses Against Children (New York: Wiley, 1995); Richard Parker and John Gagnon, Conceiving Sexuality (New York: Routledge, 1995); Edward O. Laumann et al., The Social Organization of Sexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994); Rick Zimmerman and Lilly Langer, “Improving Estimates of Prevalence of Sensitive Behaviors, ”Journal of Sex Research 32 (1995): 107-17. For a more detailed analysis of these issues see Philip Jenkins, Pedophiles and Priests

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