A sample of 43 aggressive adolescents whose behavior in school had lead to disciplinary actions were asked to narrate their feelings of rage in the classroom. The narratives were coded quantitatively. The results indicated that participants felt free to write candidly about their violent tendencies only when presented with examples of other teen's violent stories.

Almost 80% of the participants focused on comic book heroes and villains. 80% saw themselves as anti -heroes correcting wrongs done by popular but cruel students.   The most frequent type of weapons written about when serving their own brand of street justice were knives, hammers and ray guns. Half of the writings were fanciful and deemed harmless by art therapists. The other fifty percent wrote vivid, realistic depictions of animosity, included words suggestive of the participants’ desire to seek 'any means necessary' to finally be heard and seen.