ABSTRACT
Repudiating the virtues of world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it. By the late 1980s, some schools had begun to install metal detectors to search the student body for concealed weapons. The realm of education was one of many in which youth were increasingly demonized and treated accordingly. The visibility of youth, under the eye of social investigation, exists in a threefold formation: as an object of the critical gaze, as a cultural concern, and as a social category with particular members, relations, and experiences. In the late nineteenth century, adolescence was still a specifically middle- and upper-class phenomenon, a consequence of lower infant mortality rates and sufficient wealth. In the United States, the work of G. Stanley Hall in effect laid out the blueprint for the particular connotations of youth that were to become common sensical.
