The Mass Media and the Social Construction of the Missing Children Problem
- 12 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Sociological Quarterly
- Vol. 28 (4), 473-492
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.1987.tb00307.x
Abstract
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