Abstract
Revelations about Jimmy Savile’s past resonate with a climate hospitable to conspiracy thinking. Conspiratorial thinking has led to the development of a secular form of demonology that resembles phenomena usually associated with a witch-hunt. Since the 1980s the disposition towards conspiratorial thought has been mobilised in crusades against paedophiles. Conspiratorial thinking also influences the workings of the criminal justice system. Police operations that trawl for allegations of abuse are but one example of the way that a crusading zeal leads to distortions of the system of criminal justice.
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