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Stranger danger family values, childhood, and the American carceral state
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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | Stranger danger : family values, childhood, and the American carceral state/ Paul M. Renfro. |
| 개인저자 | Renfro, Paul M.,author. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (x, 297 pages). |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Renfro, Paul M.. Stranger danger New York : Oxford University Press, [2020] 9780190913984 |
| ISBN | 9780190913991 0190913991 9780190914004 0190914009 9780190914011 0190914017 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | "He was beautiful" : Etan Patz, queer politics, and the image of endangered childhood -- "Save them or perish" : race, childhood, and the Atlanta abductions and murders -- Trouble in the heartland : region, race, and Iowa's missing paperboys -- "Great surface appeal" : the Department of Justice and the affective politics of child safety -- Kids in custody : protection and punishment in the Reagan era -- "The business of missing children" : child protection in public and private -- Circling the wagon : child safety and the punitive state in the Clinton years. |
| 요약 | "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. Specifically, the child kidnapping scare further legitimated a bipartisan investment in 'family values' and 'law and order,' thereby enabling the development and expansion of sex offender registries, AMBER Alerts, and other mechanisms designed to safeguard young Americans and their families from 'stranger danger' -- and to punish the strangers who supposedly threatened them"-- |
| 해제 | Provided by publisher. |
| 주제명(지명) | United States. --fast |
| 일반주제명 | Kidnapping --United States --History. Kidnapping --Press coverage --United States. Missing children --Press coverage --United States. Children and strangers --United States. Moral panics --United States --History. Children --Legal status, laws, etc. --United States --History. Crime and the press --United States --History. Children and strangers. Children --Legal status, laws, etc. Crime and the press. Kidnapping. Moral panics. |
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