juvenile criminal personality study?

"From very early, the oxygen of the criminal's life is to seek excitement by doing the forbidden."-Stanton Samenow

my mind is brainstorming so many ideas as to what i want to focus my main research/experimental study on upon graduation in may 2010. i'm a forensic psychology major with a concentration in juvenile delinquency at john jay college of criminal justice and it has always been an interest of mine to figure out why some juveniles commit crime and others do not. i want to go deeper than the superficial reasons of the "bad influences" excuse or the "i'm from a poor neighborhood and had no other means" bandwagon. there has to be more. there just has to be. can crime be linked to individuals that share specific personality traits? hmmmm after researching yochelson and samenow's rehabilitating criminals work, i've been inspired. whats the correlation of those personality trait sharing juveniles and substance abuse? my mind is just running wild with so many theories.

well, as interesting as this is to me, i'm sure not everyone shares this same passion. so i'll stop with the snore fest.

(back to our scheduled programming)

-beans