Word: behavior
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Psychologists have long known that brutal treatment can breed brutal behavior. Child abuse is one of the most common precursors of juvenile delinquency. Severe beatings can cause central nervous system dysfunction that may lead to violent behavior. Attorney Mones says well over 90% of children who commit parricide have suffered physical, sexual and mental abuse. Unlike thousands of other severely abused children, they are finally tipped into violent retaliation by extreme distress or the opening of an opportunity. After testing, most are found to be suicidal; indeed, many attempt suicide within six months of the murder...
...number of youths arrested for all types of murder jumped 9%, to 1,396, between 1985 and 1986. While many of these youths have criminal records and drug habits that may influence their behavior, Mones estimates that less than 10% of parricide defendants have any previous record. "In the parricide cases, the kids are rarely high," he says. And the vast majority of parricides are premeditated. The typical modus operandi: several shots to the back of the head of a sleeping parent...
...both his story and his superbly compressed way with dialogue. Shooting on location in Seattle, he and Cinematographer Juan Ruiz Anchia have used the city to wonderfully dislocating effect. Indeed, they have transformed Seattle, lighting it like a giant stage set, a succession of false fronts for false behavior...
...Every 16 years or so, he would emerge from prison and savor freedom without letting it cramp his style. "My next fall is due around year end of 1996," he observes, "so I have a while yet." Chuck Berry is never likely to be out on good behavior...
...Behavior...