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American Youth in the 21st Century: Pathologized, Criminalized and Disposable

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

American Youth in the 21st Century: Pathologized, Criminalized and Disposable By Henry A. Giroux, AlterNet. Posted November 16, 2009. Young people today face imprisonment, the prescription of psychotropic drugs, psychiatric confinement, and zero tolerance policies that model schools after prisons. Editor's note: the following is an excerpt from Henry Giroux' new book, Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability? (Palgrave MacMillan). Punishment and fear have replaced compassion and social responsibility as the most important modalities mediating the relationship of youth to the larger social order. Youth within the last two decades have come to be seen as a source of trouble rather than as a resource for investing in the future, and in the case of poor black and Hispanic youth are increasingly treated as either a disposable population, cannon fodder for barbaric wars abroad, or the source of most of society?s problems...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 09, 2009 (boomark / email).