In a study of juvenile delinquents, researchers found that more than 83 percent of juveniles exhibited signs and symptoms of disorders that may have predated their crimes. (Arline, May 2005). Behavioral problems may have been misinterpreted as a lack of discipline rather than a disorder, and many young people with disorders came from a home where abuse was present. In the cases of juvenile delinquents, the courts are not making sufficient assessments of juvenile families, and the few who have their families on file are declared stable (Arline, May 2005). However, many juvenile offenders have gone through unthinkable circumstances with members of the community in which they live, parents, and agencies that played a role in their lives before entering the adult penal system (Darden, 2014). Many minors entered into the penal system have common elements in their non-profit profiles such as regretful choices, mistrust in adults, robbed childhood and being disappointed (Darden, 2014). For example, a minor named Jennifer Pruitt, suffered physical abuse, was exposed to drunken behavior, her father sexually abused her, and domestic abuse (Darden, 2014). She ran away from home and confided in her neighbor as someone she could trust, but her neighbor convinced her to rob another neighbor (Darden, 2014). During the robbery attempt, neighbor Pruitt ended up witnessing a murder, and was convicted of a murder charge that cost her more than twenty years in prison (Darden,