Reactions to young people became steadily more punitive, to the point where those in power could not see beyond the containment of children "within the four walls of a classroom, a detention centre, a prison cell or a labour camp".
Some years ago, Jim Cote produced his seminal academic analysis of what he called "arrested adulthood", in response to the question of how the most wealthy societies in the world had somehow managed to produce the most confused and screwed-up children.
Now Henry Giroux is arguing, certainly in the context of the US, that the very group that adult society has so patently failed - young people - are now the targets and objects of an obsessive "culture of fear".
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