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Paul M. Renfro

Paul M. Renfro is assistant professor of history at Florida State University and the author of Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State.

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August 13, 2021
Paul M. Renfro
The New “Crime Wave” Panic and the Long Shadow of John Walsh
We are still living in the world that Walsh, and “America’s Most Wanted,” helped build: a paranoid populace that believes crime is everywhere and can only be solved through relentless policing.

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