A look at Criminal Minds

Are Criminals Born or Made by their Environment?

Can criminal behavior be considered product of nature or made by their environment? This question has always been of much controversy. People have always wondered why these persons are so evil and what made them evil in the first place. Many people have always blamed it on the parents, if a person steels it’s because their parents never thought them not to steal, or if they kill it is because they were exposed to violence and they imitate what they saw as a child. Before there were any studies about a delinquents brain people thought that their brain was completely normal, that people just chose the wrong path. Various tests on criminal brains have demonstrated that a criminal’s brain is damaged! Delinquents are not healthy; they usually have brain damage and are affected by a traumatic situation that happened to them during their childhood. Only brain damage cannot make a person dangerous, but the combination of trauma and brain damage. Parents have always wanted to know what is it that makes a child become a serial killer. Mostly what triggers trauma is if in childhood the child is sexually abused, mistreated, witness of violence, if they have a tendency for violence, or if they engaged in an active sexual life from an extremely early age. Due to their brain damage a killer lacks the empathy feeling, and feels nothing to what they do. Most of them do not have what we call a conscience. A man can brutally kill a stripper and then sleep with her dead body for the night like if nothing had happened! The killers lack the ability to control their impulses. This is due to the damage to their frontal lobe which is the part of the brain that controls your emotions and logic. A criminal does not have the ability to make the right choices, and what there is little a person can do to correct the years of accumulation of trauma and damage.