caa a22 4500 445806117 CHVBK 20180317145156.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10611-011-9286-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10611-011-9286-5 Richardson James Judicial Studies Program, Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies, Mail Stop 311, University of Nevada, 89557, Reno, NV, USA aut Deprogramming: from private self-help to governmental organized repression [Elektronische Daten] [James Richardson] This paper examines deprogramming, a multi-faceted form of derecruitment from unpopular religious groups ("cults”) developed in the United States and then spreading to other nations, as a form of social control of new religious movements. The early history of deprogramming in the United States is discussed, and then its more recent application in Japan against members of the Unification Church is detailed. A continuum is presented that has self-help remedies at one end, and governmental repression at the other. Self-help forms of deprogramming are illustrated mainly by the United States which has First Amendment protections for religious groups which afford some protection from governmental intervention. Governmental forced derecruitment is illustrated by China's effort to stamp out the Falun Gong through a very systematic official governmental program involving many institutions operating with full support of the government and the Chinese Communist Party. In between these extremes are cases such as Japan's social control efforts, and some within the United States, where governmental officials and agencies turn a "blind eye” to self-help remedies, allowing them to operate, or even engage in covert activities to suppress unpopular religious groups. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Crime, Law and Social Change Springer Netherlands 55/4(2011-05-01), 321-336 0925-4994 55:4<321 2011 55 10611 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-011-9286-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-011-9286-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Richardson James Judicial Studies Program, Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies, Mail Stop 311, University of Nevada, 89557, Reno, NV, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Crime, Law and Social Change Springer Netherlands 55/4(2011-05-01), 321-336 0925-4994 55:4<321 2011 55 10611 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer