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Lesson Plan: The Moral Panic Over “Superpredators”
Grades 9-12
Students will learn how politicians of both parties used flawed predictions about the rise of a new class of youthful offenders known as superpredators to justify a series of dramatic changes to the nation’s criminal justice system during the 1990s.
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