CRIM 1125 Lecture Notes - Child Abduction, United States Attorney General
Document Summary
Well known critical constructionist and expert on social problems . Has written extensively about society"s focus on threatened children, . 1979-81 stranger abductions started to receive national publicity. Term missing children first appears in 1981. Us senate holds first hearing on missing children in 1981. 1982 federal gov passes missing children"s act. Formation of us attorney general" advisory board on missing children (report published in 1986) By mid-1980"s, photos of missing children started to appear on milk carton, shopping bags, billboards, tv. National center for missing and exploited children. Widely misstated fact that there were 1. 8 million missing children in the us (nobody knows where number came from) Typically, 97% missing less than 24 hours, 99% of reports cancelled within a year. 100,000 missing children were abducted by non-custodial parents. Fbi said in 1984 they were only investigating 67 cases of stranger-abductions of children.
