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Threatened Children: Rhetoric & Concern About Child Victims

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press (1990)

Short Reviews

A highly recommended, pioneering survey of a constellation of social problems and their recent magnification. Provides statistical evaluations and analyses of the most common fears and prejudices underlying society's concerns about child abduction and sexual abuse from a sociological perspective. Describes media pandering to public fears.