Correcting the Myth of the Superpredator

Flawed research predicting remorseless teen killers led to life sentences. More

States are reconsidering life prison sentences of people who were given mandatory life terms as juveniles – a practice since ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. At the time, in the 1990s, a handful of researchers inspired panic with a dire but flawed prediction: the imminent arrival of  a new breed of remorseless teen killers, so-called superpredators.

AIR DATE 10/29/19