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Standards Index: Topic 9.5: Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s

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Skill 2.C: Explain the significance of a source’s point of view and how that might limit the use of a source.

Theme 5: Politics and Power (PCE).

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The Moral Panic Over “Superpredators”

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.