21 as well as lower empathy than shown by the victims. 22 Often adolescents who inflict violence on others do so because they themselves are suffering or have suffered from abuse or early abandonment, or whose behavior is derived from living in a conflictive setting within the family, or where peers negatively influence their behavior. Youths who develop in a violent setting show more stable aggressive traits and belief in the use of aggression. This, along with patterns of upbringing marked by rejection, severity or overprotection can cause moral disconnection from their acts and lead them to stronger justification of the use of violence, or to attribute the reason for such behavior to factors outside themselves.