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The SRA panic repeated many of the features of historical moral panics and conspiracy theories such as the blood libel against Jews by Apion in the 30s AD, Christians in the Roman empire, later allegations of a Jewish conspiracy alleging the killing of Christian babies and desecration of the Eucharist, the witch hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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SRA and panic
Satanic ritual abuse ( SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organised abuse, sadistic ritual abuse and other variants ) was a moral panic that originated in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout the country and eventually to many parts of the world, before subsiding in the late 1990s.
Testimonials, symptom lists, rumors and techniques to investigate or uncover memories of SRA were disseminated through professional, popular and religious conferences, as well as through the attention of talk shows, sustaining and spreading the moral panic further throughout the United States and beyond.
Media coverage of SRA began to turn negative by 1987, and the " panic " ended between 1992 and 1995.
Some feminist critics of the SRA diagnoses maintained that, in the course of attempting to purge society of evil, the panic of the 1980s and 1990s obscured real child abuse issues, a concern echoed by Gary Clapton.
In England the SRA panic diverted resources and attention from proven cases of abuse and resulted in a hierarchy of abuse in which SRA was the most serious form of abuse, with physical and sexual abuse being minimized, marginalized and " mere " physical abuse no longer worthy of intervention.
SRA and repeated
In 2005 the varsity quad won the Stotesbury Cup and repeated its victories at SRA Nationals and the USRowing Youth Invitational.
SRA and many
SRA, with its sensational makeup of many victims abused by many victimizers, ended up robbing the far more common and proven issue of incest of much of its larger significance to society.
SRA and conspiracy
At its most extreme definition, SRA involved a worldwide conspiracy involving the wealthy and powerful of the world elite in which children were abducted or bred for sacrifices, pornography and prostitution.
SRA and such
The construction of the industrial section of Kista began in the 1970s with companies such as SRA ( Svenska Radioaktiebolaget, now a part of Ericsson ), RIFA AB ( later Ericsson Components AB, and later still Ericsson Microelectronics AB, and now Infineon Technologies ), and IBM Svenska AB ( the Swedish branch of IBM ).
* In 1987 writings on the phenomenon appeared in the United Kingdom along with incidents featuring broadly similar accusations such as the Cleveland child abuse scandal ; allegations of SRA in Nottingham resulted in the " British McMartin ", advised in part by the British journalist Tim Tate's work on the subject.
But despite the cordiality, it became apparent that such a project was unlikely to go far under the umbrella of the SRA.
The SRA, however, did not agree to the terms required, such as the lengthening of platforms and changes to railway infrastructure.
Following the rebranding GU2 won the title of " Best Station " at the 2002 SRA Awards reflecting the pursuit of an innovative format featuring favorites such as the J-Team, Ben Lander, Gareth Davies and a fair smattering of Greek language and religious content overnight.
SRA and against
Prosecutors used " Michelle Remembers " as a guide when preparing cases against alleged Satanists. Michelle Remembers, along with others portrayed as survivor stories, are suspected to have influenced later allegations of SRA and the book has been suggested as a causal factor in the later epidemic of SRA allegations.
SRA and by
On the basis of the book's success, Pazder developed a high media profile, gave lectures and training on SRA to law enforcement, and, by September 1990, had acted as a consultant on more than 1, 000 SRA cases, including the McMartin preschool trial.
Had proof been found, SRA would have represented the first occasion where an organized and secret criminal activity had been discovered by mental health professionals.
Protestantism was instrumental in starting, spreading and maintaining rumours through sermons about the dangers of SRA, lectures by purported experts and prayer sessions, including showings of the 1987 Geraldo Rivera television special.
In 1987 a list of ' indicators ' was published by Catherine Gould, featuring a broad array of vague symptoms that were ultimately common, non-specific and subjective, capable of diagnosing SRA in most young children.
* In 1998 Jean LaFontaine produced a book indicating allegations of SRA in the United Kingdom were sparked by investigations supervised by social workers who had taken SRA seminars in the United States.
In addition, as attention towards SRA turned negative, the focus by social workers on SRA resulted in a large loss of credibility to the profession.
When the SRA was abolished in 2006 franchising were taken over by the Secretary of State for Transport.
Then at a meeting Hill arranged in February 1984, having researched by then the French and Japanese high-speed rail systems ( of which he had been only distantly aware when he had taken his journey ), Wild and two colleagues discussed the potential for much higher speeds with SRA executives.
Many of the franchises have changed hands between private sector operators and one, Southeastern ( train operating company ), has been operated in the public sector after Connex was removed from control by the SRA and before a new private sector operator could be appointed.
The SRA was placed on a formal legal basis by the Transport Act 2000 and came into existence on 1 February 2001.
The book is part of the 31 volume Reading Mastery series published by the SRA Macmillan early-childhood education division of McGraw-Hill.
With the exception of the President, the EB's membership is elected by and responsible to the SRA.
He summed up his objections in what became his second most memorable railway phrase-' He who pays the piper should call the tune ' - by which he meant that the SRA should set the overall level of public spending on the railways, and what was to be delivered with the cash, and the Rail Regulator should simply check that the money was efficiently used.
In November 2007, the SRA was incorporated as a Private Company Limited by Guarantee.
In 1988, the newly elected Greiner State Government commissioned a report into the SRA by American consultants Booz Allen Hamilton.
SRA and later
) was founded first in Boston in 1976, followed by Sex Addicts Anonymous ( SAA ) in 1977, Sexaholics Anonymous in 1979, and later, Sexual Compulsives Anonymous ( SCA ) and Sexual Recovery Anonymous ( SRA ).
SRA and allegations
Nearly every aspect of SRA was controversial, including its definition, the source of the allegations and proof thereof, testimonials of alleged victims, and court cases involving the allegations and criminal investigations.
It provided a model for allegations of SRA that followed.
Their involvement in child sexual abuse cases produced more allegations of SRA, adding credibility to phenomenon.
Along with the list of indicators, American conference speakers, pamphlets, source materials, consultants, vocabulary regarding SRA and allegedly funding were imported, which promoted the identification and counseling of British SRA allegations.
By 2003 allegations of ritual abuse were met with great skepticism and belief in SRA is no longer considered mainstream in professional circles ; although the sexual abuse of children is a real and serious problem, allegations of SRA were essentially false.
SRA and alleging
Clinicians, psychotherapists and social workers documented clients alleging histories of SRA though the claims of therapists were unsubstantiated beyond the testimonies of their clients.
SRA and Christian
By the late 1980s therapists or patients who believed someone had suffered from SRA could suggest solutions that included Christian psychotherapy, exorcism and support groups whose members self-identified as " anti-Satanic warriors.
SRA and .
Allegations of SRA involved reports of physical and sexual abuse of individuals in the context of occult or Satanic rituals.
Official investigations produced no evidence of widespread conspiracies or of the slaughter of thousands ; only a small number of verified crimes have even remote similarities to tales of SRA.
In the latter half of the 1990s interest in SRA declined and skepticism became the default position, with only a minority of believers giving any credence to the existence of SRA.
Initial accusations were made in the context of the rising political power of conservative Christianity within the United States, and religious fundamentalists were enthusiastic in promoting rumors of SRA.
As the explanations for SRA were distanced from evangelical Christianity and into the realm of " survivor " groups, the motivations ascribed to purported Satanists shifted from combating a religious nemesis to mind control and abuse as an end to itself.
Belief in SRA spread rapidly through the ranks of mental health professionals ( despite an absence of evidence ) through a variety of continuing education seminars, during which attendees were urged to believe in the reality of Satanic cults, their alleged victims and to not question the extreme and bizarre memories uncovered.
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