English
superpredator
From super- + predator.
Latin praeda ‘booty, spoils, prey’
Latin praedor ‘loot, pillage’
Latin praedātor ‘raider, plunderer, pillager, hunter’
English predator
The story
Sociology sense coined by American political scientist John DiIulio in 1995.
Today it means
noun A youth who repeatedly commits violent crimes, said to be a result of being raised without morals.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / superpredator