96). The needto 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 requirestesting. 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 3ambition, and are often of below average intelligence. They do not recognize, intellectually orotherwise, any rules of society. While psychopaths and the super-predator both share the inabilityto feel emotion, the psychopath can feign it to achieve a result. The super predator seemscompletely 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 asif 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 streetcriminals, a group of life-term New Jersey prisoners did not voice the conventional explanationssuch 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 tonurture and discipline them (Zoglin 1996). Even more shocking than the sheer volume of violentjuvenile crime is the brutality of the crime committed for trivial motives: a pair of sneakers, ajacket, a real or imagined insult, and a momentary cheap thrill. For example: a 59-year-old manout on a morning stroll in Lake Tahoe was fatally shot four times by teenagers "looking forsomeone to scare." The police say the four teenagers, just 15 and 16 years old, were "thrillshooting." Another example can be the case of a 12-year-old and two other youths were chargedwith kidnapping a 57-year-old man and taking a joy ride in his Toyota. As the man plea...
