Familiar strangers, juvenile panic and the British press: the decline of social trust

Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Trust, Risk and Framing Contemporary Childhood -- News media and panics about threatened childhood and youth disorder -- From periodic panics to 'permanent' panicking: lessons from the literature -- Questions of trust and security -- Gaps in the literature -- 2 'Worthy' vs 'Unworthy' Children: Images of Childhood through Time -- The ambiguous child -- Worthy versus unworthy children: positioning the young today -- 3 Our Children and Other People's: Childhood in the Age of Distrust