Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America - Hardcover
A mesmerizing look at some of the great kidnapping cases in America over the past 125 years. Explores how our fear has evolved from its first chilling realization in 1874, when Americans were startled & horrified to discover that their children could be held for ransom, until today, when sexual predators seem to threaten our children at every turn. Discusses the growing industry revolving around missing children, from not-for-profit foundations publicizing missing children to for-profit businesses offering to insure children against kidnapping. Provides new insights into parenting, the media & our fascination with celebrity, policing & law enforcement, gender & sexuality, mental health, etc.
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Paula S. Fass has written extensively on issues of childhood and youth, culture and society, including The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth and the 1920s (OUP, 1979) and Outside in: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education (OUP, 1989). She is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
Few crimes capture our imagination as completely as child kidnapping. Paula S. Fass explores how our awareness of violence toward the young has evolved from a time when Americans were shocked to discover that their children could be held for ransom, until today, when sexual predators seem to threaten our children at every turn. In a series of riveting narratives, Kidnapped shows how child abduction is entangled with cultural issues -- parenting and the American family, the media and our fascination with celebrity, gender and sexuality, mental health, and much more. By tracing the most infamous kidnapping cases of the past 125 years, Fass peers into the American mind, providing new insights into a society that both values and exploits its youngest members.
About the Author:
Paula S. Fass has written extensively on issues of childhood and youth, culture and society, including The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth and the 1920s (OUP, 1979) and Outside in: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education (OUP, 1989). She is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
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- PublisherOxford Univ. Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0788197320
- ISBN 13 9780788197321
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages324
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