Saturday, February 19, 2005

Teenage criminals show no remorse - study / Stuff New Zealand, 19 Feb 2005

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3193440a10,00.html
"Seven out of 10 young people in New Zealand prisons are 'predators' who show no remorse for the victims they see as prey, one of the authors of a new report says. Clinical psychologists have completed a study that shows 71 per cent of young offenders had psychopathic tendencies such as callousness and a lack of remorse or empathy.
The study, reported in an Auckland newspaper today, also showed they did not take responsibility for what they had done and had shallow emotions, such prisoners fitted the category of having psychopathic behaviour. "