Stranger danger : family values, childhood, and the American carceral state
著者
書誌事項
Stranger danger : family values, childhood, and the American carceral state
Oxford University Press, c2020
- : hardback
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
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
「Nielsen BookData」 より