Editing Moral panic (section)

==== Satanic panic (1980s–present) ====
{{Main|Satanic panic}}

The "satanic panic" was a series of moral panics regarding satanic ritual abuse that originated in the United States and spread to other English-speaking countries in the 1980s and 1990s, which led to a string of wrongful convictions.{{sfn|Goode|Ben-Yehuda|2009|pp=57–65}}<ref name="Jenkins">{{Cite book |title=Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America |last=Jenkins |first=Philip |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=1998 |isbn=978-0300109634 |location=New Haven, Connecticut |pages=[https://archive.org/details/moralpanicchangi0000jenk/page/207 207–231] |author-link=Philip Jenkins |url=https://archive.org/details/moralpanicchangi0000jenk/page/207 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend |last=Victor |first=Jeffrey S. |publisher=[[Open Court Publishing Company]] |year=1993 |isbn=978-0812691917 |location=Chicago |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/satanicpaniccrea00vict }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic |last=Young |first=Mary |publisher=McFarland |year=2004 |isbn=978-0786418305 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |author-link=Mary de Young}}</ref> The [[West Memphis Three]] were three teenagers falsely accused of murdering children in a satanic ritual.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}} Two were sentenced to life in prison and one was sentenced to death, before all being released after 18 years in prison.