Season 2 · Episode 198
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 198: Most Wanted w/ Paul Renfro
Nostalgia Trap · David Parsons
May 28, 20201h 13mExplicit
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Show Notes
Paul Renfro is a professor of history at Florida State University and the author of Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State. In this conversation he explains how fears of child abduction fueled a hysterical campaign in the 1970s and 1980s that produced a wave of new laws, structures of punishment, and ideas about family, security, and sexuality that continue to haunt American life.