Just so you know, this show is about scary stuff. So don't say I didn't warn you guys.

And remember, don't be scared. Oh, The Oh, Episode 73, Super Predator.

War baby here with another episode of Murder as Miners. By the 1990s, 90s, the myth of the rise of the so-called super-predator was devised

and perpetrated across the land, frightening legislatures into drafting juvenile

laws which would have consequences for decades, even up until now.

The 1980s had seen a sharp and dramatic increase in the rates of juvenile crime, mostly in line with the rise of the crack cocaine epidemic.

The super predator was a child criminal who, according to political scientist and criminologist John

D'Ulio Jr. lacked all evidence of having grown up in a civilized in normal society.

They have no empathy, impulse control, conscience or regard for life.

A super predator is a young juvenile criminal who is so impulsive, so remorseless, that he can kill

rape, name, without giving it a second thought.

We're talking about a group of kids who are growing up essentially fatherless, godless, and jobless.

He wrote of children evolving into bands of roving teens who could remorlessly rate, injure, and kill,

with a smile on their face and emptiness behind their eyes.

These are the images which help pave the way for tough on juvenile crime laws, many of which

required mandatory life without parole for crimes committed while under the age of 18. We adopted the adult crime requires adult time

mindset as if anything that vague could be used as an actual parameter. I mean

once a child does it, can it still be considered an adult crime?

There are no violent offenses that are juvenile.

You rape somebody, you're an adult.

You shoot somebody, you're an adult. You're an adult.

John Diulio would later backpedal on his theory, but it was far too late.

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