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Lamb, Nancy Beasley. "The Witch-Hunt Narrative." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 32, no. 6 (March 2017): 948–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260516657356.

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For more than two decades, conventional wisdom about the high-profile day care cases of the 1980s and early 1990s suggests all were modern-day witch hunts, based on false allegations made by highly suggestible children during an era when society was gripped by a “believe the children” hysteria. Author Ross Cheit refutes conventional wisdom by conducting an exhaustive examination of original data from dozens of cases bearing the witch hunt label. He concludes there was no witch-hunt epidemic, finding substantial evidence of sexual abuse in nearly every case he reviewed, contradicting the assertions made about those cases by what he calls the witch-hunt narrative. Cheit examines the legacy of the witch-hunt narrative and contends its exaggerated claims about the suggestibility of children have had a negative effect on the credibility of children today who allege being sexually abused. This writer examines Cheit’s conclusions in light of her own experience as a career prosecutor of crimes against children as well as her involvement in a high-profile day care case encompassed by the witch-hunt narrative. Setting the record straight about these cases is important not only for the sake of historical accuracy and intellectual honesty but also because the witch-hunt narrative’s unwarranted assertions about the suggestibility of children have had a negative effect on society’s perception of their credibility. Bringing public attention to the fallacies of the witch-hunt narrative and shining a light on questionable tactics used by some in academia to support their contention that all children are highly suggestible will ultimately serve to strengthen society’s ability to believe a child who discloses sexual abuse.

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Wittner, Lawrence S. "Witch hunt." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 55, no. 4 (July 1, 1999): 68–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2968/055004018.

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Harris, Adrienne. "Witch-Hunt." Studies in Gender and Sexuality 19, no. 4 (October 2, 2018): 254–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2018.1531514.

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Stürmer, Michael. "Witch Hunt." Foreign Affairs 76, no. 2 (1997): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20047948.

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Heilbrun, Carolyn G., and Claire Harman. "Witch Hunt." Women's Review of Books 7, no. 6 (March 1990): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4020738.

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Foreman, Jonathan. "Witch-hunt." Index on Censorship 24, no. 6 (November 1995): 95–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064229508535994.

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Wood, James M., Debbie Nathan, Richard Beck, and Keith Hampton. "A Critical Evaluation of the Factual Accuracy and Scholarly Foundations of The Witch-Hunt Narrative." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 32, no. 6 (March 2017): 897–925. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260516657351.

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We comment on The Witch-Hunt Narrative ( TWHN) by Cheit. As its first hypothesis, TWHN argues that most of the famous ritual child abuse cases of the 1980s and 1990s were not really witch-hunts at all. In response, we criticize the TWHN definition of a witch-hunt as overly narrow and idiosyncratic. Based on the scholarly literature, we propose 10 criteria for identifying a witch-hunt. We rate four well-known ritual child abuse cases with these criteria and show they were classic witch-hunts. As its second hypothesis, TWHN argues that most defendants in child ritual abuse cases were guilty or probably guilty. In response, we point out many instances in which TWHN has omitted or mischaracterized important facts or ignored relevant scientific information running contrary to its hypotheses. We conclude that TWHN is often factually inaccurate and tends to make strong assertions without integrating relevant scholarly and scientific information. Scholars should approach the book with caution.

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Chakravarty, Anuradha, and Soma Chaudhuri. "Strategic Framing Work(s): How Microcredit Loans Facilitate Anti-Witch-Hunt Movements." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 17, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 175–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.17813/maiq.17.2.f54x1h0622750028.

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This article shows how a social movement organization focused on microcredit loans is able to mobilize a community against its own cultural practice of witch-hunts. Successful mobilization against witch-hunts are possible when two conditions are met: first, when activists are able to tap into microcredit groups' social capacity for collective mobilization (defined by ties of mutual dependence, reciprocity, and friendship); and second, when activists are able to use strategic framing to present a coherent argument about the congruence of microcredit and anti-witch-hunt goals. In this context a master frame (women's development) emerged that effectively forged the seemingly disparate goals of microcredit loans and anti-witch-hunt campaigns into one synthetic movement. In contrast, successful mobilization against witch-hunts was difficult in areas where the activists did not have access to the microcredit networks or were not able to strategically frame the campaign.

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A., Alun. "Nota witch-hunt?" Nature 344, no. 6267 (April 1990): 605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/344605a0.

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Earp, D. "Communist witch hunt." British Dental Journal 212, no. 3 (February 2012): 103–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2012.103.

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Gillies, Esther H. "The Witch-Hunt Narrative." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 32, no. 6 (March 2017): 956–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260516657353.

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Responding to Ross E. Cheit’s Witch-Hunt Narrative, this article is a commentary chronicling the emergence of child sexual abuse as a social issue in Los Angeles County in the 1980s. Based on the responses to child sexual abuse in Los Angeles County as experienced by one social worker during the McMartin years, it discusses the impact of the McMartin case on the identification and intervention in child sexual abuse cases and tracks the evolution and changes that took place in the 1980s and 1990s in Southern California. It offers some insight into a rationale for the denial of child sexual abuse which continues to this day.

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Faller, Kathleen Coulborn. "The Witch-Hunt Narrative." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 32, no. 6 (March 2017): 784–804. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260516657357.

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This article provides an overview of The Witch-Hunt Narrative, focusing on the challenges of gathering information from young children, such as those involved in sexual abuse allegations in day care. The article summarizes the research methodology of The Witch-Hunt Narrative, which involves a series of case studies. The article articulates Cheit’s hypothesis, which is that the witch-hunt narrative originated in two key publications, a series of articles by two journalists, Tom Charlier and Shirley Dowling, and the book, Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern-Day Witch-Hunt, by Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker, and notes his disputes with the evidence from these two publications. Cheit deals in depth with three hotly contested day care center cases: the McMartin Pre-School case in Manhattan Beach, California, the Wee Care Day Nursery case in Maplewood, New Jersey, and the Country Walk Babysitting Service case in Dade County, Florida. The article summarizes Cheit’s research and conclusions related to these three cases and also notes how forensic interview practices used in these cases would not be supported today. The article concludes with noting that despite the impressive progress in forensic interviewing of children when sexual abuse is alleged, methods for gathering information from young children remain inadequate. Moreover, there are no easy answers to the reasons for the rise and fall of allegations of sexual abuse in day care and of allegations of ritual abuse.

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Wagner, M. "A global witch-hunt." Lancet 346, no. 8981 (October 1995): 1020–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(95)91696-2.

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Chapman, S. "Sydney's asthma witch hunt." BMJ 311, no. 7017 (November 25, 1995): 1390. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.311.7017.1390a.

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Parcelli, Carlo. "Witch‐hunt as enlightenment." Science as Culture 5, no. 3 (January 1996): 467–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505439609526441.

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Bailey, Michael D. "The European Witch-Hunt." Social History 42, no. 2 (April 3, 2017): 281–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2017.1290356.

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Canning, Simon. "Witch hunt feared after Allitt." Nursing Standard 8, no. 24 (March 9, 1994): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns.8.24.7.s10.

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Knox, Lewis A. "The facilitated communication witch-hunt." American Psychologist 51, no. 9 (September 1996): 986–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0003-066x.51.9.986.b.

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Bin‐Sallik, Mary Ann. "Black Witch Hunt: White Silence!" Australian Feminist Studies 11, no. 24 (October 1996): 201–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.1996.9994818.

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Gwynne, Peter. "Top climatologist faces ‘witch hunt’." Physics World 23, no. 06 (June 2010): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/23/06/10.

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Stan, Lavinia. "Witch-hunt or Moral Rebirth?" East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures 26, no. 2 (April 6, 2011): 274–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325411403922.

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Lustration was not legislated in Romania to date, but it was discussed by deputies and senators of all ideological persuasions, especially from 2005 to 2007. Declarations delivered in front of the house, interventions during debates of lustration-related draft bills and contributions to a parliament-sponsored public discussion reveal that for Romanian legislators lustration can bring about moral cleansing and a break with the past, provide retributive justice for victims of communism, facilitate elite replacement, prevent future violence, and help countries enjoy the benefits of European Union accession, although it punishes valuable individuals, runs against European values, is impractical and unconstitutional.

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Clark, Charles W., and Marc Aronson. "Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials." History Teacher 37, no. 3 (May 2004): 401. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1555677.

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Shmakov, Aleksandr, and Sergey Petrov. "Economic Origins of Witch Hunting." Studies in Business and Economics 13, no. 3 (December 1, 2018): 214–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2018-0044.

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Abstract A number of events taking place in the twenty-first century such as mass arrests of members of the Iran President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad's executive office accused of witchcraft make one doubt that witch hunt trials remained in the far Middle Ages. It is religious motives that are usually considered the main reason for anti-witchcraft hysteria. When analyzing the history of anti-witchcraft campaigns we came to the conclusion that in the majority of cases witchcraft was a planned action aimed at consolidating the state power and acquiring additional sources of revenue. By using economic instruments we tried to reveal some general regularities of witch hunt in various countries as well as conditions for this institution to emerge and for ensuring its stability by the state power We show that witch hunt was an instrument of implementing institutional transformations aimed to consolidate the political power or to forfeit wealth by the state power.

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Willumsen, Liv Helene. "Julian Goodare: The European Witch-Hunt." Heimen 54, no. 01 (April 25, 2017): 109–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.18261/issn.1894-3195-2017-01-08.

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Locklin, Nancy L. "The Early Modern Classroom: Witch Hunt." Sixteenth Century Journal 35, no. 1 (April 1, 2004): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20476843.

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Cambers, Andrew, and Julian Goodare. "The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context." Sixteenth Century Journal 35, no. 2 (July 1, 2004): 581. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20476998.

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Bond, Tina, Linda Dunford, and Thelma McGuire. "Protecting patients is no witch hunt." Nursing Standard 8, no. 41 (July 6, 1994): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ns.8.41.35.s47.

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Heđbeli, Živana. "New Archival Legislation: the Witch Hunt." Atlanti 28, no. 2 (November 12, 2018): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.33700/2670-451x.28.2.13-24(2018).

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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 entered in force in Croatia on May 25, 2018. General Data Protection Regulation regulations still have to be applied. On June 29, 2018 the Croatian Parliament has proclaimed Law on Archives and Archival Records. Personal data of the persons that filled public posts and were members or collaborate of the security services till the May 30, 1990 are accessible without any restrictions regarding the part on performing duties or services. In Croatia there is no person that has been subject to trial only because he/she filled public posts and was members or collaborates of the security services during the socialism. There is no law that will make such trials possible. There are no official registers, released by the competent bodies, which list public officers, members or collaborates of the security service till the May 30, 1990. The unavoidable question arises regarding what criteria archivist should use to determine these persons, where to find relevant data. Why a task that is not and should not be competence of an archive is enforced on archives.

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Olafson, Erna. "Commentary About Cheit’s Witch-Hunt Narrative." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 32, no. 6 (March 2017): 940–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260516657352.

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Ross Cheit’s lengthy study is strongest when he describes in detail the findings of his 13 years of research into the original records of the key “witch hunt” cases of the 1980s to set the record straight, when possible, about what really happened. However, because this was partial history that focused primarily on the interplay between academic psychology and the media in a limited number of cases, a commentary about the broader historical and institutional context may lead to a more optimistic conclusion than Cheit seems to reach. Since this latest discovery of child sexual abuse (and its partial suppression with the rapid and predictable construction of the witch-hunt narrative), professionals across a range of disciplines continue to refine statistical science to document the prevalence and impact of child sexual abuse. They continue to enhance our understanding about children’s memory and suggestibility. They have steadily refined methods to elicit full and accurate information from alleged child victims, created child advocacy centers with multidisciplinary teams to handle cases skillfully, and have developed evidence-based assessment tools and treatment protocols for substantiated victims. This solid and continuing academic output, coupled with nationwide institutionalization of the childhood trauma and maltreatment fields in organizations such as the National Child Advocacy Center, the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network make this rediscovery of child sexual abuse different from the many other discoveries and suppressions that preceded it.

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Shweder, Richard A. "John Searle on a witch hunt." Anthropological Theory 6, no. 1 (March 2006): 89–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463499606061739.

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Wilson, John. "Professional Fitness: wisdom or witch‐hunt?" Westminster Studies in Education 12, no. 1 (January 1989): 83–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0140672890120107.

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Towell, Elaine. "Public reporting: accountability or witch-hunt?" Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 90, no. 6 (June 1, 2008): 194–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/147363508x319154.

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As demand for greater public accountability and transparency in the UK health care system continues to grow, surgeons of all specialties are in discussion on how best to produce outcome data specific to individual clinicians. In the US individual outcomes for cardiac surgery have been published in some states for almost 20 years, yet surgeons here and abroad remain sceptical as to whether the benefits of public reporting outweigh the negatives.

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Albaladejo, Angelika. "A “Witch Hunt Against Poor Women”." World Policy Journal 33, no. 4 (2016): 26–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07402775-3812906.

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L., J. F. "MODERN WITCH HUNT—CHILD ABUSE CHARGES." Pediatrics 93, no. 4 (April 1, 1994): 635. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.93.4.635.

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The 1974 act—sometimes known as the Mondale Act, after one of its sponsors—was implemented to fight a genuine problem. Up to that year, child abuse was rarely reported and frequently covered up. It was Congress's intent to rectify this deplorable situation by providing incentives for states to set up programs for child abuse research, identification, prosecution and treatment. Federal funding was made available to match state spending, and this served as an incentive for states to create such programs. The law, however, has had results that its authors did not intend. In America today, child sex-abuse accusations are burgeoning. In many cases, it is probable that the charges are valid. But when the charges arise from vicious child custody disputes, where the vengeance element and the opportunity for exclusion of a hated spouse is operative, or in venues such as day-care centers, where the potential pedophile has little opportunity for contact with the child alone, the prevalence of child abuse is in reality quite low. The Child Abuse Establishment Nevertheless, the number of charges in these areas escalate. The primary reason: The Mondale Act has strengthened the "child abuse establishment"—a network of social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists and law enforcement officials—that through its very existence frequently validates an individual's charges. In other words, this establishment, unintentionally or intentionally, encourages charges of child abuse whether they are reasonable or not.

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Gabriel, Judith. "Palestinians Arrested in Los Angeles Witch-Hunt." MERIP Middle East Report, no. 145 (March 1987): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3012427.

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Kondro, Wayne. "ottawa Ontario to impose “urinary witch-hunt”?" Lancet 356, no. 9244 (November 2000): 1829. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(05)73299-2.

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Reamer, Frederic G. "A Narrative on The Witch-Hunt Narrative." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 32, no. 6 (March 2017): 875–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260516657349.

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Ross Cheit’s The Witch-Hunt Narrative raises a number of complex moral issues. Cheit’s principal purpose is to challenge the belief that our society has overreacted to claims about the sexual abuse of children. Both directly and indirectly, Cheit’s in-depth analysis broaches moral concerns pertaining to the integrity of child abuse allegations, investigations, civil litigation, and criminal prosecution, with an emphasis on the mixed motives of the parties involved in key cases. This article provides an overview of ethical questions pertaining to gathering information from very vulnerable individuals, informed consent, institutional review, protection of research participants, the use of deception and coercion, confidentiality and privacy, reporting research results, and conflicts of interest. In addition, the author discusses the phenomenon of whistle-blowing as it pertains to professionals’ ethical judgments about disclosure of wrongdoing and misconduct. The author outlines key ethics-related concepts, applies relevant moral theory, and explores the implications of the moral issues raised by The Witch-Hunt Narrative for child sexual abuse victims, perpetrators, child welfare and law enforcement professionals, scholars and researchers, and the public at large.

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Staller, Karen M. "The Methodology of The Witch-Hunt Narrative." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 32, no. 6 (March 2017): 853–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260516657350.

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From an evidentiary point of view, the project Ross Cheit seeks to accomplish in his book, The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children, is remarkably complex. I examine the methodology that underlies Cheit’s scholarship to assess the strength of his claims. Cheit’s work has a strong methodological core in which he asserts the existence of a “Witch-Hunt Narrative” (WHN), public perception that there are “hundreds” of legal cases involving innocent adults wrongly criminally pursued for child sexual abuse. He identifies three foundational cases in this WHN, McMartin, Michaels, and Fuster, along with dozens of others, which he distills from published lists. Using broadly collected archival and other data, Cheit investigates the veracity of this WHN. He concludes there is insufficient evidence to substantiate the witch-hunt claim. Methodologically, Cheit’s research veers into more problematic territory when he seeks to extend his WHN claims beyond this central core and extend it to the academy, particularly the research of several prominent academics, including psychologists Stephen J. Ceci and Maggie Bruck. I examine these claims and argue Cheit has not paid sufficient attention to the methods and methodology upon which he bases his claims. I conclude by noting the complexity of evaluating evidence produced and utilized in, and across, disciplinary boundaries, including journalism, law, and the academy. Nonetheless, Cheit’s scholarship raises a plethora of important questions and possibilities for future research.

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Wilson, R. "TV: Cot Death Mothers: The Witch Hunt." BMJ 326, no. 7385 (February 15, 2003): 402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.326.7385.402.

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Sebald, Hans, and Brian P. Levack. "The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe." American Historical Review 93, no. 4 (October 1988): 1037. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1863574.

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Hall, David D. "Middle Ground on the Witch-Hunt Debate." Reviews in American History 26, no. 2 (1998): 345–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rah.1998.0026.

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Moynihan, R. "Assaulting alternative medicine: worthwhile or witch hunt?" BMJ 344, feb15 2 (February 15, 2012): e1075-e1075. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e1075.

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Hagen, Rune. "The witch‐hunt in early modern Finnmark." Acta Borealia 16, no. 1 (January 1999): 43–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08003839908580487.

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Goodare, Julian. "Women and the witch‐hunt in Scotland1." Social History 23, no. 3 (October 1998): 288–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071029808568039.

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Woodward, W. W. "New England's Other Witch-hunt: The Hartford Witch-hunt of the 1660s and Changing Patterns in Witchcraft Prosecution." OAH Magazine of History 17, no. 4 (July 1, 2003): 16–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/maghis/17.4.16.

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Lanning, Kenneth V. "A Commentary From a Law Enforcement Perspective on The Witch-Hunt Narrative by Ross E. Cheit." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 32, no. 6 (March 2017): 967–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260516657359.

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As a result of his assignment to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Behavioral Science Unit, the author consulted on and has firsthand knowledge of most of the cases discussed in Cheit’s book. He came to believe that there is a middle ground. Some of what victims allege may be true and accurate, some may be misperceived or distorted, some may be symbolic, and some may be contaminated or false. The problem and challenge, however, is to determine which is which. He basically agrees with much of what Cheit sets forth about seeds of truth in many allegations. He has concerns about some confusing and inconsistent definitions. What was and is referred to by many as the backlash can be confused with what Cheit refers to in his book as the witch-hunt narrative. Many professionals, including possibly Cheit, do not seem fully aware of the wide diversity of ways in which children are sexually victimized. The author believes that any delayed reporting and minimization of recent cases involving the Catholic priests and Penn Sate have more to do with inaccurate stereotypes perpetuated by child abuse idealists than some witch-hunt narrative. From a law enforcement perspective, more benefit would have come had Cheit’s extensive research focused more on documenting how allegations became so bizarre and inaccurate and less on the alleged far-ranging harm caused by the witch-hunt narrative. In the author’s opinion, it is that process and not the witch-hunt narrative that caused most of the long-term damage discussed.

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Normand, Lawrence. "Goodare (ed.), The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context." Scottish Historical Review 83, no. 2 (October 2004): 239–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/shr.2004.83.2.239.

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Sinitiere, Phillip Luke, and Richard Godbeer. "Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692." History Teacher 39, no. 1 (November 1, 2005): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/30036752.

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Bohannon, J. "Turkish scholar who eluded arrest describes 'witch hunt." Science 351, no. 6280 (March 24, 2016): 1381. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.351.6280.1381.

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Snyder, Robert E. "Margaret Bourke-White and the Communist Witch Hunt." Journal of American Studies 19, no. 1 (April 1985): 5–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875800020028.

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Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) has been called “the most famous woman photographer” and “the finest woman photographer of our times.” Indeed, in a photographic career that spanned nearly five decades, Bourke-White demonstrated great professional versatility, registered many photographic firsts, and in a male-dominated field set standards by which others were measured. During the 1920s, Bourke-White carved out her first reputation in architectural and industrial photography. Her pictures of steel mills, shipyards, packing houses, logging camps, quarries, auto plants, skyscrapers, banks, and terminals captured the atmosphere of the industry and the dynamics of the capitalist system. Her industrial photography was of such outstanding quality that, as one critic observed, it “transformed the American factory into a Gothic cathedral.”Henry Luce was so impressed by her early work that he hired her as the first photographer for his business magazine Fortune. Under a unique arrangement she was allowed six months out of the year to pursue her own private studio practice for advertising agencies and corporations. When Henry Luce added the pictorial magazine Life to his growing publishing empire in the 1930s, he selected Margaret Bourke-White to become one of the four original staff photographers. At Life she established the tradition of negatives printed full frame and proved by black borders, and pioneered the synchronized multiple flash picture. Bourke-White revealed the range of her photographic talents in photo essays, murals, and documentary travelogues. “As a result of her twelve- and fourteen-page essays,” Carl Mydans noted, “her monumental work became known throughout the world — beyond that of any other photographer.”

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