Talk:John J. DiIulio Jr.

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How the heck is this man's name spelled? "Dilulio" or "Diiulio"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.210.78.75 (talk) 16:58, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DiIulio is correct (that is, D-i-capital i-ulio) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.123.227.6 (talk) 03:51, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Very common name--98.21.27.20 (talk) 01:25, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Superpredators[edit]

I DOUBT he is "credited with" both creating OR popularizing the term. Which is it? Even better, which did he do, or was it both? It seems he isn't a fan of the term, so his popularizing it 20 years earlier needs corroboration. It is virtually CERTAIN that he didn't claim that "America's youth" were "brutally remorseless". (leave aside the question of how one can be brutally remorseless...) I challenge this assertion. (No reasonable scholar would claim that all of any large diverse group had a single personal (social or emotional) characteristic in common. (Not that hyperbole such as this isn't possible, but it requires authoritative sourcing).Abitslow (talk) 21:17, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

According to the amicus brief [[1]] which has DiLulio[sic] as one author, he both is credited amongst scholars with creating the term AND with popularizing the term in the mid-1990's. The other problem with the article is that while his prediction of an epidemic of superpredatory juveniles catalyzed changes to the juvenile justice system in 48 states (according to the brief), and while he no longer believes that there is an "epidemic", his basic claim, that there is a class of juveniles who are motivated to murder, torture and rape without compunction has not, as far as I can determine, been challenged. So, this article needs to make clear that "the superpredator myth" is about an epidemic incorrectly predicted to occur in the late 1990's, while the superpredator meme is about a particular type of sociopath. If there are no superpredators, then there can be no epidemic of them, but obviously it doesn't follow that if there is no epidemic, then they don't exist.Abitslow (talk) 21:52, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hit Piece[edit]

For a distinguished scholar such as DiIulio (author of numerous books and several hundred articles), this article (to me) weirdly reads like a hit piece, focused overwhelmingly on negatives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8806:3300:32C0:FCE2:22B0:2E1E:55D7 (talk) 05:42, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Superpredators and Christian morality[edit]

We need to mention this presumed link:

The abject moral poverty that creates super-predators begins very early in life in homes where unconditional love is nowhere but unmerciful abuse is common

More https://www.weeklystandard.com/john-j-dilulio-jr/the-coming-of-the-super-predators? Zezen (talk) 03:28, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Political party[edit]

What's the source of the claim that he's a Democrat? Seems unlikely given his tenure in the Bush admin, but I don't have much context. 2601:602:867F:81B0:5E:60E1:5884:33A8 (talk) 04:45, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]