Kenneth V. Lanning's Investigator's Guide to Allegations of Ritual Child Abuse, issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1992, is a federal law enforcement training document written by an FBI Behavioral Science Unit specialist after years of investigating claims of organized ritual abuse. Its authority rests on Lanning's direct investigative caseload and on its status as the standard law enforcement reference that shaped how agencies since have evaluated such claims. Its central finding, that investigators found no corroborating physical evidence for claims of organized Satanic ritual abuse networks specifically, carries the caveat the report itself makes, that child abuse is real and the finding concerns the ritual and conspiracy elements. Cite it for that law enforcement finding, not as a general study of child abuse.
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Kenneth V. Lanning's Investigator's Guide to Allegations of Ritual Child Abuse, issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1992, the top tier reflecting a federal law enforcement training document by an FBI Behavioral Science Unit specialist writing from his own investigative caseload, and the standard reference that shaped how agencies since have evaluated such claims. Its central finding, no corroborating physical evidence for organized Satanic ritual abuse networks specifically, carries the report's own caveat that child abuse itself is real; cite it for that law enforcement finding, not as a general study of child abuse. NotesThe no-corroborating-evidence finding on Satanic ritual abuse, with the caveat that child abuse itself is real.
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AuthorKenneth V. Lanning
PublisherFederal Bureau of Investigation
Publication Year1992
URLhttps://sacred-texts.com/pag/lanning.htm
Source Typegovernment
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- Denominations, 3 claims: 3 general references.
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