Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend

1994/01/01 by Thomas Robbins, Jeffrey Victor · 4 citations
Social Sciences · #Crime, Deviance, and Social Control

paper · doi:10.2307/3712069

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Abstract

Thomas Robbins; Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend, by Jeffrey S. Victor. Chicago: Open Court Press, 1993, 403 pp. 38.95; 16.95 (paper)

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