Additionally, child killers want to feel the desire to feel powerful or tend to use their victims as a "science project", attempting different levels of violence on their victim, to see what reaction they may have had. In my opinion, this is what many child killers have. First, self-centered behavior involves satisfying one's interests. Regoli, R. and Hewitt, J. (1991). Second, the attitude of the boys during the trial suggests to me that they did not care about killing the little child. Not feeling guilt for killing one's victim would suggest the theory of moral disengagement, which is "the individual's tendency to use mechanisms conducive to selective disengagement from moral censure." Regoli, R. and Hewitt, J..