CRIM 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Amber Alert, Unthinkable, Jacob Wetterling
10 Sep 2017
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Chapter 3: the myth and fear of missing children. Beginning in the early 1980s, barely a week went by when the public was not exposed to photographs, stories, and debates on the issue of missing and abducted children. Virtually every form of media was used to circulate the faces and stories of missing children. Etan patz was the first child whose face appeared on the side of a milk carton (1979) From milk cartons to flyers in utility bills to television documentaries, americans were made aware of the child abduction epidemic . Toy store and fast-food restaurants distributed abduction-prevention tips for both parents and children. Parents could have their children fingerprinted or videotaped to make identification easier; some dentists even proposed attaching identification disks to children"s teeth . More recently children abduction prevention has turned high-tech with law enforcement agencies and private companies offering to record children"s dna and to implant locator chips in the bodies of children.
