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(sociology) A youth who repeatedly commits violent crimes, said to be a result of being raised without morals..
In 1996 [DiIulio] authored an incendiary warning of a "rising tide of juvenile superpredators" [and in the National Review] "[a]ll that's left of the black community in […] urban America is deviant, delinquent, and criminal adults[.]"
Superpredators theoretically arise from dysfunctional homes, inadequate schools, and morally bankrupt communities.
Use superpredator when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Superpredator means (sociology) A youth who repeatedly commits violent crimes, said to be a result of being raised without morals..
Common synonyms include hyperpredator.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In 1996 [DiIulio] authored an incendiary warning of a "rising tide of juvenile superpredators" [and in the National Review] "[a]ll that's left of the black community in […] urban America is deviant, delinquent, and criminal adults[.]"
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