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A timeline of student research for The Beat Within, A Compositional History of Incarcerated Writing course. During the Fall semester of 2015, students read Nell Bernstein's Burning Down the House, The End of Juvenile Prison. For the discussion of Chapter 5 titled 'The Rise of the Super-Predator And the Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal' students identified news media/multimedia connected to the Super-Predator Myth. In the course text, Bernstein states, "...high-profile researchers crossed crime stats with demographic projections to stir up fears of a coming wave of "super-predators" unlike any seen before - "more savage than salvageable," according to Princeton political science professor John Dilulio, who made his name by playing up the (supposedly) coming menace. On October 9, 1996, a book called Body Count - co-authored by Dilulio, drug czar William J. Bennett, and think-tank director John P. Walters - hit the shelves, and America was formally introduced to our new worst nightmare: our children." (p. 72)
This timeline will document any Super-Predator Myth resources we discover off and online including links to news, video, audio, etc. We will maintain updates to the hstry tool on Twitter.com/vbehindw hashtag #TBW2015cj.
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