TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Stranger danger :family values, childhood, and the American carceral state /
AU  - Renfro, Paul M.,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - HV6598
ID  - 929253
KW  - Kidnapping
KW  - Kidnapping
KW  - Missing children
KW  - Children and strangers
KW  - Moral panics
KW  - Children
KW  - Crime and the press
SN  - 9780190914011 
TI  - Stranger danger :family values, childhood, and the American carceral state /
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