Newgon article needs correction

[galileo2333]

On the newgon article "Moral Panic" there's some inaccuracies:

https://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/Moral_panic

2007-2016 - This was a period of relative calm, representing a slight relief in the news cycle as the problematization that commenced in the mid-70s belatedly burned out. Arrests and convictions for sexual offenses began a downward trend that continues in the 2020s.

Arrests and convictions for sexual offenses are at an all time high and continue to increase.

Media attention shifted to institutional forms of abuse, celebrity abuse scandals and generalized trends such as human trafficking, and later, right-wing conspiracy theories and the #MeToo movement.

All these factors, especially the appearance of the #MeToo movement, accelerated arrests and prosecutions for sex offenses, the vast majority of those for activities that shouldn't even be illegal. The celebrity abuse scandals were used to justify increased enforcement of sex crime laws and expanded definitions of sexual abuse. This directly contributed to more incarceration of ordinary people for sex offenses.

[Jim Burton]

Do you have a source for that?

It is widely accepted that the 1990s (in America, but also elsewhere in the western world) represented the peak in law enforcement activity, and accordingly, arrests and convictions for sex offenses peaked in the 1990s and started to fall, again increasing in negative velocity around 2007.

https://bjs.ojp.gov/national-incident-b ... stem-nibrs

See "crime data explorer".