Predator (criminology)

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In criminology, a predator is used to describe a criminal, most commonly in the phrases sexual predator and/or child predator. The term superpredator has also been used to refer to a theorized individual, from an urban ghetto, who has developed an aversion to modern society. The term is also in common use in the media because to many newspapers and televised news programmes, describing someone convicted of (in example) Rape, they can change a simple comment such as 'The offender raped the woman' into 'The man is a predator, whom rapes his victims' Though the basic wording and the comments are the same, it is made to make the offender in this case look more 'evil'.