Hypercriminals

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can be isolated in determining whether young people will be criminal in their behavior is moral poverty," Greenberg says.
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According to the recently published "Body Count: Moral Poverty
. . . and How to Win America' s War Against Crime and Drugs," a new
generation of "super-predators, " untouched by any moral inclinations,
will hit America's streets in the next decade. John DiIulio, the Brookings Institute fellow who co-wrote the book with William Bennett
and John Walters, calls it a "multi variate phenomenon, " meaning that
child abuse, the high number of available high-tech guns, alcoholism
and many other factors feed the problem. University of Pennsylvania
professor Mavin Wolfgang says, "6 percent to 7 percent of the boys in
an age group will be chronic offenders, meaning they are arrested five
or more times before the age of 18." If that holds true, because there
will be 500,000 more boys ages 14 to 17 in the year 2000 than there
were in 1995, there will be at least 30,000 more youth criminals on
the...