Kids Who Kill: "Eric LaRue" and "Adolescence"

Nature vs. Nurture: A new independent feature and a popular British mini-series touch on the factors driving youthful murderers, and the impact of their crimes on their own families and communities.

Nature or nurture: Are acts of violence, including murder, the result of inherent evil or do they owe to the impact of one’s environment? Neither? Both?

Do people commit heinous crimes because they are driven by internal compulsions, stemming from some type of inherent moral defect, or are those acts a result of the various collective influences on their…