Morality and homicide among Young killers

Abstract

Crime and morality: from predicting to accounting for wrong-doing iolence among youngsters, particularly from lower classes, has usually been linked in criminology to personality development associated with family and educational failures, resulting in selfishness among subjects usually described as short-term oriented, territorial, gregarious, motivated by pleasure rather than profit and little concerned about consequences of their behavior (BIRKBECK, 2006; GABALDÓN and SERRANO, 2001;REISS and ROTH, 1993;GOTTFREDSON and HIRSCHI, 1990). Some scholars think severe deprivation is a predictor of juvenile violent behavior (ZUBILLAGA, 2007, pp. 585-586), assuming the rise of negative affects following frustration and anger (AGNEW, 1995, p. 383).Claiming territories as real or symbolic spaces for domination has been suggested to be associated as well to such a behavior (PEREA, 2003; see KATZ, 1988, Chap. 4). These views V DOSSIÊ VIOLENCIA, NARRATIVA Y MORALIDAD