The youngsters were now in school, on the streets, away from home, with more opportunities for antisocial behavior. Many people survive such enormous difficulties in childhood and don't grow up to be murderers. However, when the problems of childhood are reinforced by added neglect in the school, the social services system, and the neighorhood, they steadily worsen. Fantasies All the murderes that were interviewed in the above-mentioned study had compelling fantasies where they could, in effect, control their world. They overcompensated for the aggression in their early lives by repeating the abuse in fantasy, but this time, with themselves as the aggressors.
Fantasy is defined as a happenstance unattainable in normal life.
The deviant person, having had very few true restraints on his behavior since childhood, believes he can act out his fantasy and that nobody will be able to stop him. The offender's commitment to the fantasies deepens as he becomes a loner in adolescence, subject to the onset of puberty and sexual arousal. Aggressive, and with a feeling of having been cheated by society, he may channel his hostility into fantasies, which are characterized by strong visual components, and by themes of dominance, revenge, molestation, manipulation, and control. Deviants feel the sexual urge without having learned that it hast anything to do with affection. The cognitive mapping process is almost complete by now, It is the development of thinking patterns that affect how the person relates to himself and to his environment, it determines how the individual gives meaning to the events that happen in his world.