Paul M Renfro

Stranger Danger

Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State

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Produktbeschreibung

Stranger Danger examines the moral panic over child kidnapping and exploitation that erupted in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It shows how several high-profile cases of missing and murdered white photogenic children generated a national furor over child safety and led to the creation of new legal and cultural instruments designed to keep children safe-and to punish those who ostensibly wished them harm.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780190913984
• ISBN-10: 0190913983
• Artikelnr.: 57829524

Autorenporträt

Paul M. Renfro is Associate Professor of History at Florida State University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Part I: "The Stark Terror of a Unique Tragedy"
* Ch. 1: "He Was Beautiful": Etan Patz, Queer Politics, and the Image
of Endangered Childhood
* Ch. 2: "Save Them or Perish": Race, Childhood, and the Atlanta
Abductions and Murders
* Ch. 3: Trouble in the Heartland: Region, Race, and Iowa's Missing
Paperboys
* Part II: "The Battle for Child Safety"
* Ch. 4: "Great Surface Appeal": The Department of Justice and the
Affective Politics of Child Safety
* Ch. 5: Kids in Custody: Protection and Punishment in the Reagan Era
* Ch. 6: "The Business of Missing Children": Child Protection in Public
and Private
* Ch. 7: Circling the Wagon: Child Safety and the Punitive State in the
Clinton Years
* Epilogue: To Catch a Predator
* Notes
* Index