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<p><P><b>From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sharp and compassionate investigation of the root causes of the epidemic of drug abuse, violence, and despair among mainstream American teenagers</b><P>In the past few years, it has become painfully clear that all is not well with the children of middle-class America. Beyond the shootings at Columbine, hardly a day goes by without stories of drug use, binge drinking, fatal accidents, and senseless suicides among middle-class adolescents. But the why of these tragedies has eluded us.<P>In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed sociologist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliott Currie rejects such predictable answers as TV violence, permissiveness, and inherent evil. Instead, drawing on years of interviews, he links this crisis to a pervasive culture of exclusion that has left young people facing an ever more unforgiving world. Currie describes a society in which severe punishment and zero tolerance of adolescent misbehavior have become the norm, where tough love and medications have replaced engagement and guidance. Broadening his inquiry, he dissects the changes in middle-class life that have enforced newly rigid divides between winners and lo

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Author

Elliott Currie

Publisher

Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805080001

Category

education

Subjects

Sociology, Science, Fiction

Rating

3.62 / 5 (72 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14