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The more things improve the more pessimistic we become. Violence-related deaths at the nation’s schools dropped to a record low during the 1996—97 academic year (19 deaths out of 54 million children), and only one in ten public schools reported any serious crime. Yet Time and U.S. News & World Report both ran headlines in 1996 referring to Teenage Time Bombs. In a nation of Children Without Souls (another Time headline that year), America’s beleaguered cities are about to be victimized by a paradigm shattering wave of ultraviolent, morally vacuous young people some call ‘the superpredators,’ William Bennett, the former Secretary of Education, and John Dilulio, a criminologist, forecast in a book published in 1996.11
The more things improve the more pessimistic we become. Violence-related deaths at the nation’s schools dropped to a record low during the 1996—97 academic year (19 deaths out of 54 million children), and only one in ten public schools reported any serious crime. Yet Time and U.S. News & World Report both ran headlines in 1996 referring to Teenage Time Bombs. In a nation of Children Without Souls (another Time headline that year), America’s beleaguered cities are about to be victimized by a paradigm shattering wave of ultraviolent, morally vacuous young people some call ‘the superpredators,’ William Bennett, the former Secretary of Education, and John Dilulio, a criminologist, forecast in a book published in 1996.11
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