{"product_id":"the-satanic-error-how-institutions-created-a-moral-panic-a-documentary-history-9798246790625","title":"The Satanic Error: How Institutions Created a Moral Panic - A Documentary History","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): G. R. Whitcombe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services \u0026amp; Welfare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Book has also been published as \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Broxtowe Illusion: Ritual Abuse, Inquiry, and the Making of a Moral Panic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Broxtowe case is often remembered for its dramatic allegations, but its real significance lies in what it reveals about how institutions think, investigate, and fail.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE SATANIC ERROR: How Institutions Created a Moral Panic - A Documentary History \u003c\/b\u003eis a precise, fully documented examination of Britain's most influential and misunderstood child-protection investigation and the chain of events that followed it across the 1980s and 1990s.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the suppressed \u003cb\u003eJoint Enquiry Team (JET)\u003c\/b\u003e report, the official \u003cb\u003eLa Fontaine\u003c\/b\u003e inquiry, contemporary records, and the professional culture of the period, G. R. Whitcombe reconstructs how a case of multigenerational familial abuse was gradually overlaid with an interpretive narrative of \"ritual\" and \"satanic\" activity-despite the absence of corroborating evidence. The book shows how interview errors, imported therapeutic theories, organisational pressures, and asymmetric information allowed an interpretive model to flourish inside institutions while the corrective findings remained out of sight.\u003cbr\u003eFrom Nottingham to \u003cb\u003eRochdale\u003c\/b\u003e, the \u003cb\u003eOrkney Islands\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eAyr\u003c\/b\u003e, Whitcombe traces how belief in hidden networks spread across agencies, influencing practice, training, and public perception. The book examines why the original findings were suppressed, how professional networks such as RAINS accelerated the narrative, and how the panic finally collapsed under national scrutiny. It also analyses why belief in concealed abuse persisted into the digital era, and how figures such as former detective \u003cb\u003eJon Wedger\u003c\/b\u003e illustrate the post-panic shift from institutional evidence to personal testimony in public discourse.\u003cbr\u003eThis is not a sensational account. It is a documentary study of institutional vulnerability: how interviewing methods became distorted, how memory was misunderstood, how warnings were ignored, and how well-intentioned professionals helped create one of late-twentieth-century Britain's most consequential safeguarding failures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Satanic Error\u003c\/b\u003e is essential reading for safeguarding practitioners, social-work educators, legal professionals, journalists, and anyone concerned with how public institutions handle complex allegations. Its central lesson is a simple one: safeguarding requires vigilance, but vigilance must be governed by evidence. When narrative outruns method, error\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47593972924567,"sku":"9798246790625","price":1138.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798246790625.webp?v=1774984195","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-satanic-error-how-institutions-created-a-moral-panic-a-documentary-history-9798246790625","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}