A Frank Writing on Frank Furedi Crimes against children, like kidnapping and murder, are serious problems in the US and the UK. However, Culture of Fear author Frank Furedi argues in his book that the concern over crime against children in the US and the UK is overblown. In a brief passage, Furedi downplays kidnappings in the US, and child murders in the UK. Furedi uses convenient statistics to make a flimsy argument on why reactions to these issues take on "panic-like proportions" (Furedi 24). However, much of the evidence that Furedi uses to support his claims is either out-of-date, selective, or even false. The bulk of Furedi's book was published in 1997, and the book was last revised in 2002, as of this writing. Therefore, much of the information available to Furedi at the time his book was first written in 1997 may not apply to modern times, or Furedi may not have adequately updated his research regarding his 2002 revisions to Culture of Fear. At any rate, it helps to first read Furedi's statement on crime against children in its full context. Furedi writes: "Anxieties regarding the threat of crime against children often take on panic-like proportions. In the USA, where FBI statistics indicate that fewer than 100 children a year are kidnapped by strangers, the public concern with child abduction is pervasive. [...] The same inflated sense of danger prevails in the UK. Many parents do not believe that, over the years, the number of children murdered by strangers has remained fairly static. On average it has been five per year. A few highly publicized child murders have helped shaped the impression of such tragedies 'could happen to every child'" (Furedi 24). Furedi's thesis for the paragraph was that "Anxieties regard... ... middle of paper ... ...ed that between 1976 and 1994 almost 37,000 children had been murdered (Child Victimizers iv). This appalling number would have been timely enough to include in Culture of Fear, a book which was written in 1997. In fact, the Department of Justice report states that the highest murder victim group in the US for 1994 was children in the age range of fifteen to seventeen (Child Victimizers 17). So clearly, greater concern over the safety of children is needed. But Furedi clearly is not out to write a book on why concern over crimes against children is rational. After all, that would not make for an interesting book. There is an old saying, never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Furedi clearly chooses to ignore the complete truth in order to push his own agenda, and his use of select, unsubstantiated facts casts a taint over his entire book's credibility.
There is a broad spectrum of crimes that are committed day to day. When one thinks of murder, parental murder against children is not at the forefront of the mind. Filicide, or the murder of one’s child, is a crime that is common but not mentioned often. About 500 filicide cases happen each year, which has been close to the same number for about a decade (Orenstein, Brown University, 2014). Also according to studies, boys were 58.3 percent more likely to be killed than girls. Looking at statistics from the National Institute of Health, as of 2004 in the US, 311 of 578 (53.8%) children under the age of five were murdered by their parents. From 1976 to 2004, maternal filicide accounted for 30 percent of all children under the age of five while
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In chapter four “Media Constructions of Children”, it discusses complex and commonly inconsistent presumptions made about young children. It also goes into a famous 1993 case where a two-year-old boy named James Bulger was murdered by two older boys. The boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were ten years old at the time of their crime. The chapter then goes into how children aren’t just offenders but also tragic victims of pedophiles. According to Yvonne Jewkes, in 1993 “children became regarded as evil monsters capable of committing the most depraved acts, but by 1996 a counter-construction of children emerged” (pg. 111).
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