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Stranger Danger - Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State (Hardcover)
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Stranger Danger - Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State (Hardcover)
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Beginning with Etan Patz's disappearance in Manhattan in 1979, a
spate of high-profile cases of missing and murdered children stoked
anxieties about the threats of child kidnapping and exploitation.
Publicized through an emerging twenty-four-hour news cycle, these
cases supplied evidence of what some commentators dubbed "a
national epidemic" of child abductions committed by "strangers." In
this book, Paul M. Renfro narrates how the bereaved parents of
missing and slain children turned their grief into a mass movement
and, alongside journalists and policymakers from both major
political parties, propelled a moral panic. Leveraging larger
cultural fears concerning familial and national decline, these
child safety crusaders warned Americans of a supposedly widespread
and worsening child kidnapping threat, erroneously claiming that as
many as fifty thousand American children fell victim to stranger
abductions annually. The actual figure was (and remains) between
one hundred and three hundred, and kidnappings perpetrated by
family members and acquaintances occur far more frequently. Yet
such exaggerated statistics-and the emotionally resonant images and
narratives deployed behind them-led to the creation of new legal
and cultural instruments designed to keep children safe and to
punish the "strangers" who ostensibly wished them harm. Ranging
from extensive child fingerprinting drives to the milk carton
campaign, from the AMBER Alerts that periodically rattle Americans'
smart phones to the nation's sprawling system of sex offender
registration, these instruments have widened the reach of the
carceral state and intensified surveillance practices focused on
children. Stranger Danger reveals the transformative power of this
moral panic on American politics and culture, showing how ideas and
images of endangered childhood helped build a more punitive
American state.
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