Реферат: Super Predators Essay Research Paper What is

or cure many severe socio-economic ills. "Let [the liberal elite] argue

church-state issues…all the way to the next funeral of an innocent kid caught

in the crossfire," he says. "Our guiding principle should be, `Build

churches, not jails’–or we will reap the whirlwind of our own moral

bankruptcy." (Paul, 1996, p. 27) DiIulio’s "super predators" are

born of abject "moral poverty," which he defines as: The poverty of

being without loving, capable, responsible adults who teach you right from

wrong. It is the poverty of being without parents, guardians, relatives,

friends, teachers, coaches, clergy and others who habituate you to feel joy at

others’ joy, pain at others’ pain, happiness when you do right, remorse when you

do wrong. It is the poverty of growing up in the virtual absence of people who

teach these lessons by their own everyday example, and who insist that you

follow suit and behave accordingly. In the extreme, it is the poverty of growing

up surrounded by deviant, delinquent, and criminal adults in chaotic,

dysfunctional, fatherless, Godless, and jobless settings where drug abuse and

child abuse are twins, and self-respecting young men literally aspire to get

away with murder. Scholars who study drugs and crime are only now beginning to

realize the social consequences of raising so many children in abject moral

poverty. The need to rebuild and resurrect the civil society (families,

churches, community groups) of high-crime, drug-plagued urban neighbourhoods is

not an intellectual or research hypothesis that requires testing. It’s a moral

and social imperative that requires doing – and doing now. (Bennett, et al,

1996, p. 22). It can be assumed that the "super predator" is actually

a young psychopath or psychotic. While these terms have become largely

interchangeable, thanks in large part to Hollywood, there are distinct

differences between the psychopath, the psychotic, and the Super Predator.

British Columbia Psychologist Robert Hare has done some ground breaking research

into the study of psychopaths and has found that psychopaths tend to under

utilize regions of the brain that integrate memories and emotions. These

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