Senseless Crime is Even More So When Committed by Children

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As an academic of criminal psychology and someone who purposefully tries to put herself in the minds of violent individuals when writing novels, I am exposed to many stories that make you wonder how a person can make choices so beyond the boundaries of the basic connections of humanity. How can a mind be so twisted to cause brutal harm to others? What happened and when to cause such behavior? What warning signs did we miss? When the act of violence...