Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State

by Paul M Renfro

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190913983
• ISBN13: 9780190913984
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"