What Makes Criminals Tick?

Is every human basically good? What kind of question is this? There are many answers to this question and there is a lot to be said. Most would think that children and born naturally good and pure. They do no chose to be bad or do any destructive acts. It just naturally happens, for whatever it may be, from how children were raise or any psychological factors, something triggers a person to do things that do not make them pure anymore. It is safe to say that most parents intend to raise their children to be kind, generous and have empathy for others. It is the world and society itself that make people became engaged with anger that they carry out.

Everyone has their own thoughts and views of the world and try to have an understanding of one another. Naturally people are born with goodness in the world. It is their choice whether or not we decide to use this goodness or destroy it. Or could it be that is does not become a choice, it becomes instincts? People do what they feel they naturally have to; disregarding what is morally right, and what their values are based upon. Should this be based upon the fact that we are speices, along all other living creatures in the world? That people do what is necessary in order to survive and live this game what we like to call life. After all of this is looked at, it all comes down to children, and what makes them disturbed, and, also (as we would like to think that people are naturally good) go bad.

Violent Children, by Karen L. Kinnear, stated that three out of every ten juvenile murder arrests involved a victim under the age of eighteen (Kinnear 93). This led to Violence Opposing Viewpoints, collected by editors Scott Barbour and Karin L. Swisher. The increase in the seriousness of juvenile crime may be explained because of the fact that violence has become increasingly graphic and gory (Barbour & Swisher 68). This seems to have a lot of support since children are watching television more than six and a half hours a day with the media, including TV, video games and movies. Their eyes become glues to the screen and they have a blank stare of fascination in them. Two to six year old children cannot evaluate the messages from the media they watch, so they accept what they see as normal behavior (Barbour & Swisher 69). They begin to build their image of a world around TV. They have no perception of reality. It is said that children who watch too much TV exclude themselves from the outside world. Four-fifths of children destined to be criminals will be antisocial by eleven years of age, and fully two-thirds of antisocial five year olds will become delinquents by the age of 15 (Barbour & Swisher 88). Since they do not go out and try to make friends with other kids their ages all of what they know is what goes on in their homes. Most people would consider their homes as the safest place and feel very secure in them.

However, some people do not have a choice. Children who come from violent homes, in which one or both of the parents are physically abusive to each other and/or to the children, may also become violent. Living in neighborhoods in which many inner-city street corners, have gangs of taunting teenage thugs feuding over territories in lines of respect affect in the neighborhood. Children who see this harassment everyday live in fear. These children pick up these things and become America's poster "no-good child," they are automatically considered not to be anything in life. An abusive parent gives a child no hope, they cannot concentrate on what they want to become, but they are more concern on what they should do at that very moment. Looking at the childhood of criminal is an important key to serial killers behavior; yet a lot of children have suffered abuse by their parents and do not grow up to be murders. Many girls who were raped and victimized, as children do not necessarily grow up to be sadistically violent toward strangers. Childhood abuse is not a direct link to a future in crime yet it is an undeniable factor in many of criminal backgrounds. There is no time for improving or succeeding and doing what it takes to become successful. They begin to develop dangerous minds. They want to inflict pain on others, in order to justify their grief.

Yet, not all of these children succeed on inflicting this pain. It is either they keep all of their emotions inside and cannot think anything else other than how angry they are. Bullies who love to torment pick on them, on a daily basis. These bullies, however, are the ones that who do succeed on inflicting pain. It is somewhat of an endless cycle, with nothing but drastic outcomes. Since bullying occurs mostly among children, it is often viewed as a minor problem compared to