| Title : | Kidnapped : child abduction in America |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Paula S. Fass, Author |
| Publisher: | Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University : distributed by Harvard University Press |
| Publication Date: | 1999 |
| Pagination: | 324 p. |
| Size: | 24 cm |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-674-00082-7 |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p.269-308)
Includes index (p.309-324) |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | Kidnapping - History
Missing children
United States
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| Class number: | 364.15 |
| Abstract: | Throughout the research and writing of this book, I have had the good fortune to receive support from a variety of institutions and many friends and colleagues. It is a pleasure to acknowledge them here. Twine, in this summer of 1990 and in 1994-95, the National Endowment for the Humanities provided me with fellowships for independent study. I am very grateful to that wonderful American institution. In 1991-92, together with a group of other delighted scholars, I benefited from the hospitality of the Center for Advance Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California... |
| Contents note: | ”The lost boy” : The abduction of Charley Ross”; “The most amazing crime in the history of Chicago-and of the United States” : Leopold of Loeb; “The nation’s child is dead” : The Lindbergh case; “Baby hunger and sexual pathology : The abductions of Robert Marcus and Stephanie Bryan; “ An innocent child caught in the web of legal jargon ”Parental abduction in America; Missing ”Child kidnapping in contemporary America”; Conclusion : Protecting Our Children. |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=14053 |
