Moral panics and social work: A response to David Pilgrim

TY - JOUR

T1 - Moral panics and social work

T2 - A response to David Pilgrim

AU - Smith, Mark

AU - Cree, Viviene E.

AU - Clapton, Gary

PY - 2017/8

Y1 - 2017/8

N2 - In his article 'Child sexual abuse, moral panics and emancipatory practice' (Pilgrim, 2017), David Pilgrim seeks to use our book, Revisiting moral panics (Cree et al, 2015), to construct a straw man, which needs to be knocked down to preserve his own particular view of child sexual abuse. There are many problems in the way he does so, which we address in this response.

AB - In his article 'Child sexual abuse, moral panics and emancipatory practice' (Pilgrim, 2017), David Pilgrim seeks to use our book, Revisiting moral panics (Cree et al, 2015), to construct a straw man, which needs to be knocked down to preserve his own particular view of child sexual abuse. There are many problems in the way he does so, which we address in this response.

KW - moral panics

KW - child sexual abuse

U2 - 10.1332/204986017X14919883274449

DO - 10.1332/204986017X14919883274449

M3 - Comment/debate

SN - 2049-8608

VL - 5

SP - 223

EP - 229

JO - Critical and Radical Social Work

JF - Critical and Radical Social Work

IS - 2

ER -