Alabama Law Scholarly Commons Articles Faculty Scholarship 2019 Crime Fantasies John Felipe Acevedo University of Alabama - School of Law,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_articles Recommended Citation John F. Acevedo, Crime Fantasies, 46 Am. J. Crim. L. 193 (2019). Available at: https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_articles/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Alabama Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Articles by an authorized administrator of Alabama Law Scholarly Commons. Article CRIME FANTASIES John Felipe Acevedo* I. Introduction .................................. ....... 194 II. Witch-Hunts ......................................... 198 A. Quaker-Hunting in Colonial Massachusetts Bay ......................... 199 B. The First Red Scare......................... ....... 204 C. The Second Red Scare ..................... ......... 209 D. Distinguishing Witch-hunts from Race Targeting . .......... 211 III. Crime Panics ............................................ 215 A. Salem...................................... ..... 216 B. Satanic Panic ......................................... 222 C. The Mueller Investigation ............................ 225 D. Crime Panics and Race ....................... 229 IV. Lessons from Crime Fantasies............................ 234 A. Preventing Witch-Hunts...... .................. 235 B. Mitigating Crime Panics ........................ ..... 237 V. Conclusion ..................................