Whether it was an abusive family, physical trauma, or just anything out of the ordinary. The past seems to play a part, especially when it comes to wrong doing. Kids who are teased unmercifully by classmates grow up to commit premeditated murder(it's possible). Does the person's past cause social problems such as crime? If you look at the childhood of the three most sinister criminals: Jeffery Lionel Dahmer, Charles Manson, and David Berkowitz "Son of Sam." I say it does.

Jeffery Lionel Dahmer was born in 1960. He grew up in a middle class family in Bath, Ohio. In 1968, he was sexually molested by a neighbor boy. Then at ten he was experimenting with dead animal. He would decapitate them, and put their heads on a stake. At eighteen, Jeffrey witnessed his parents divorce, which he felt was his fault. His fascination with dead animals grew to people...