Denis Rancourt
Introduction...
The establishment, not so very long ago, had a healthy fear of juveniles. In the 1950s:
"A thousand conferences, agencies, committees, and newspapers alerted the country [USA] to the danger. Juvenile delinquency was the only rebellion around, and it had to be stopped.
Articles on teenage delinquency gushed forth. Experts labelled it a “national epidemic,” projecting some two and a half million cases. “Unless this cancer is checked early enough,” warned one popular book, 1,000,000 Delinqints (1955), “it can go on spreading and contaminate many good cells in our society…."
