The environment a child is surrounded by is what develops a child's perception of the mind of a criminal. A child's mind is made of pure innocence until exposed to destructive patterns of development. Children who grew up as a criminal were raised in a home without control and where the environment creates vulnerability. Those who grow up to 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 sexual offenders do not fully develop basic skills, which makes them more likely to experience negative pressure from society (para. 20). The first crime committed by an adolescent sex offender occurs after the individual has experienced abandonment, abuse, loss of love and basic care, and an unstable family structure (para. 3). That 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 in past developmental stages that made them violent. A child learns the difference between right and wrong through lessons taught by his parents, and if he experiences experiences such as rape at such a young age by his parents, he will think that the wrong act is right. A child's painful past of traumatic events influences the individual's future motivations in what they experienced during childhood stages. Children who have suffered abuse and neglect have difficulty trusting other people due to the traumatic events they have experienced (Shi and Nicol par. 8). Harsh memories never leave an indiv...... middle of paper ......expressions of fear: Comparative research with criminal and noncriminal psychopaths."Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 20.1 (2009): 66 - 73. Newspaper Source. Web. May 25, 2014. Kucharski, Thomas L., Joseph P. Toomey, Katarzna Fila, and Scott Duncan “Detecting Malingering of Psychiatric Disorders with the Personality Assessment Inventory: An Investigation of Criminal Defendants.” Journal of Personality Assessment 8.1 (2007): 25-32. Web. May 25, 2014. Shi, Lin, and Jason Nicol. “In the 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 , n.d. Newspaper Web 2014.