Stranger danger: family values, childhood, and the American carceral state

Starting in the late 1970s, a moral panic concerning child kidnapping and exploitation gripped the United States. For many Americans, a series of high-profile cases of missing and murdered children, publicized through an emergent twenty-four-hour news cycle, signaled a "national epidemic"...

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1. Verfasser: Renfro, Paul M. 1987- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Oxford scholarship online
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Zusammenfassung:Starting in the late 1970s, a moral panic concerning child kidnapping and exploitation gripped the United States. For many Americans, a series of high-profile cases of missing and murdered children, publicized through an emergent twenty-four-hour news cycle, signaled a "national epidemic" of child abductions perpetrated by strangers. Some observers insisted that fifty thousand or more children fell victim to stranger kidnappings in any given year. (The actual figure was and remains about one hundred.) Stranger Danger demonstrates how racialized and sexualized fears of stranger abduction-stoked by the news media, politicians from across the partisan divide, bereaved parents, and the business sector-helped to underwrite broader transformations in US political culture and political economy
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (296 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780190914011
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190913984.001.0001