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Acknowledgments Introduction: Fear Eats the Soul PART ONE: SEX PANIC 1. Panic: A Guide to the Uses of Fear 2. Innocents at Home: How Sex Panics Reshaped American Culture 3. To Catch a Predator: New Monsters, Imagined Risks, and the Erosion of Legal Norms 4. The Magical Power of the Accusation: How I Became a Sex Criminal and Other True Stories PART TWO: THE PUNITIVE STATE 5. Zero Tolerance: Crime and Punishment in the Punitive State 6. Innocents Abroad: Taboo and Terror in the Global War 7. Constructing Victimization: How Americans Learned to Love Trauma 8. The Victimology Trap: Capitalism, Liberalism, and Grievance Conclusion: Whither the Punitive State? Appendix 1: Race, Incarceration, and Notification Appendix 2: Notes on Method Notes Index

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