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Child Abductions

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The recent return of Jaycee Dugard to her family has focused media attention on child abductions as well as on the so-called Stockholm syndrome, or traumatic bonding. There’s disagreement over whether or not the syndrome played a role in the Dugard case. We take up the issues.

Guests:

Suzanne Brown-McBride, executive director of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault and chair of the California State Sex Offender Management Board

Paula Fass, professor in the Department of History at UC Berkeley and author of "Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America"

Mardi Horowitz, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF and president of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

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