Mary de Young is a retired professor of sociology formerly at
Grand Valley State University, where from 2000 to 2003 she served as the head of the sociology department.
She has published a variety of works in the area of
child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child sexual abuse include engaging in sexual activities with a child (whet ...
, including five books, several book chapters, and more than 35 peer-reviewed journal papers.
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Scholarly works
In 1989, de Young reviewed the literature published by pro-pedophile organizations for public dissemination and found that pro-pedophile organizations used several strategies to promote goals of public acceptance of pedophilia, including the adoption of value-neutral terminology, redefining the term child sexual abuse, promoting the idea that children can consent to sex with adults, questioning the assumption of harm, promoting objective research, and the declassification of pedophilia as mental illness.
De Young has also published several works examining the satanic ritual abuse
The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) starting in the United States in th ...
controversy as a moral panic
A moral panic is a widespread feeling of fear, often an irrational one, that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society. It is "the process of arousing social concern over an issue", us ...
from a sociological
Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation and ...
perspective.[https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3292&context=jssw ]
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Home page
at Grand Valley State University
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American sociologists
American women sociologists
People from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Grand Valley State University faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
Satanic ritual abuse hysteria in the United States