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The Scapegoating of America's Youth: Past and Present (Mis)Conceptions

By Ryn Gluckman

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In December 1995 John DiIulio, former head of Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, published a series of apocalyptic reports predicting a new breed of violent juvenile delinquents, the "teenage superpredators." Most famous among these reports was the widely read "The Coming of the Super-Predators."

Ryn Gluckman is the Program Coordinator at the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College, and Program Assistant at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program. She is a writer and activist and is currently co-authoring a book on young people's oppression.