n about three times as dangerous as the one before it." And, he argues,
             the downhill slide into utter moral bankruptcy is about to speed up
             because each generation of youth criminals is growing up in more extreme
             conditions of "moral poverty" than the one before it. Mr. Dilulio defines
             moral poverty as "growing up surrounded by deviant, delinquent, and
             criminal adults in abusive, violence-ridden, fatherless, Godless, and
             The "super-predator", as told to a Washington press gathering by
             DiIulio, is a breed of criminal so dangerous that even the older inmates
             working their way through life sentences complain that their youthful
             counterparts are out of control. He describes these teen criminals as
             "radically present-oriented". Because their time horizon may be as short
             as the next guard's shift, they have no capacity to defer gratification
             for the sake of the future. When these "super- predators" were asked by
             DiIulio or other inmates if they would commit their crimes again, most
             answer, "Why not?" DiIulio also says, they are "radically self-regarding
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