The environment in which a child is surrounded is what develops his perception in the mind of a criminal. A child's mind is purely innocent until exposed to destructive developmental patterns. Children who grew up in the shoes of a criminal were raised in a home without control and where the environment created vulnerability. Those who grow up in childhood with an unorganized lifestyle only want to possess the control and power that criminals possess. Children raised in this unstable environment slowly develop the skills that adolescents learn earlier (Shi and Nicol par.2). Juvenile sex offenders do not fully develop life skills, facilitating negative pressure from society (para. 20). The first crime committed by an adolescent sex offender occurs after the individual has experienced neglect, abuse, loss of basic love and care, and an unstable family structure (para. 3). This trauma of not being loved and cared for convinces the person that they will always be unloved and that no one will care. Individuals who become criminals have had destructive patterns during past developmental stages, making them violent. A child learns the difference between right and wrong from the lessons his parents teach, and if he undergoes experiences such as rape at such a young age by his parents, he will think that the wrongdoing is right. A child's painful past of traumatic events affects the individual's future motivations in what he or she experienced during childhood phases. Children who have been abused and neglected have difficulty trusting others because of the traumatic events they have experienced (Shi and Nicol par. 8). Harsh memories never leave an individual...... middle of paper ......al Expressions of Fear: Comparative Research with Criminal and Non-criminal Psychopaths. "Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 20.1 (2009): 66 -73. Journal source. Web. May 25, 2014. Kucharski, Thomas L., Joseph P. Toomey, Katarzna Fila, and Scott Duncan. “Detection of malingering disorders Personality Assessment Inventory: A Survey of Criminal Defendants. Journal of Personality Assessment 8.1 (2007): 25-32. "Mind of a Juvenile Sex Offender: A Clinical Analysis and Recommendation from an Attachment Perspective." The American Journal of Family Therapy 35.5 (2007): 395-402. PsycARTICLES Web, May 23, 2014. Sullo, Michelle. T. and Lauren Garrison, October 17, 2010: 2-8 New Haven Register (CT) Np: np, and Web log source, May 24.. 2014.