Paula Fass

Paula Fass is the Margaret Byrne Professor of History Emerita at the University of California at Berkeley. She studies children’s history from a global perspective. She is the author of Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America, published in 1997 by Oxford University Press. 

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Jaycee Dugard was found in August, 2009 18 years after her abduction. While most child abductions by strangers do not end so well, historian Paula Fass points out that stranger abductions comprise only a small percentage of child kidnapping cases even though they receive the lion's share of media attention. Fear over stranger abductions has grown in the United States since the 19th century, and often results more from general fears about society than the actual safety of individual children.
Child Kidnapping in America