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cfr-25138	Conrad, Joann	The War on Youth: A Modern Oedipal Tragedy	2002	9	.pdf	application/pdf	3466	167	50	Former California Governor, Pete Wilson, who sponsored Prop 21, spoke to voters' visceral fears of kids gone bad, and framed the initiative in clearly generational (and false) terms, saying: While adult crime has been falling dramatically, the same cannot be said for youth violence and gang violence (Ellis B4). This public belief in the growing problem of violent youth, which is dis- proportionate to current statistical information,2 and which is, furthermore, in contrast to most adults' actual experiences, should be seen as what Lawrence Grossberg calls an affective epidemic; a fetishized site, disconnected and disproportionate to its actual worth, ideological in intent, and fed by the daily economy of saturated panics (Acland 284).	cache/cfr-25138.pdf	txt/cfr-25138.txt