Mary de Young

Mary de Young is a retired professor of sociology formerly at Grand Valley State University, where from 2000 to 2003 she served as the head of the sociology department. She has published a variety of works in the area of child sexual abuse, including five books, several book chapters, and more than 35 peer-reviewed journal papers.

De Young has also published several works examining the satanic ritual abuse controversy as a moral panic from a sociological perspective.