Book review: A 'State of Panic': A Review of Paul M Renfro's, Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State.

Book review: A "State of Panic": A Review of Paul M Renfro's, Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State A "State of Panic": A Review of Paul M Renfro's, Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State, Oxford University Press: New York, 2020; 312 pp.: ISBN 0190914017, $34.95. Certainly, Renfro is careful to recognize the metastasizing nature of the carceral state, coupled with the ideology of stranger danger to help expand the state and federal supervision of child safety/protection and punitive measures towards marginalized communities and sex offenders. [Extracted from the article]