n 1996). “The need to rebuild and resurrect the civil society (families, churches, community groups) of high-crime, drug-plagued urban neighborhoods is not an intellectual or research hypothesis that requires testing. It's a moral and social imperative that requires doing - and doing now (Duin 1996).” A super predator is actually a young psychopath or psychotic, almost completely without Deloach 3 ambition, and are often of below average intelligence. They do not recognize, intellectually or otherwise, any rules of society. While psychopaths and the super-predator both share the inability to feel emotion, the psychopath can feign it to achieve a result. The super predator seems completely incapable of even that. More interestingly, the super predator is remarkably candid. They will more often than not admit not only to their crimes, but also as to the why. They feel as if nothing wrong was done and would do it again if placed in the same situation. When asked what was triggering the explosion of violence among today's young street criminals, a group of life-term New Jersey prisoners did not voice the conventional explanations such as economic poverty or joblessness. Instead, these hardened men cited the absence of people - family, adults, teachers, preachers, coaches who would care enough about young males to nurture and discipline them (Zoglin 1996). Even more shocking than the sheer volume of violent juvenile crime is the brutality of the crime committed for trivial motives: a pair of sneakers, a jacket, a real or imagined insult, and a momentary cheap thrill. For example: a 59-year-old man out on a morning stroll in Lake Tahoe was fatally shot four times by teenagers "looking for someone to scare." The police say the four teenagers, just 15 and 16 years old were "thrill shooting." Another example can be the case of a 12-year-old and two other youths were charged with kidnapping a 57-year-old man and taking a joy ride in h...
