What makes the criminal ? A hard choice : scientific materialism or Satanism ?

I often ask myself this question: who becomes a criminal and why ? Almost all prosecuted crimes seem profoundly anti-social. There must be an area of the human brain that specializes in SOCIAL conscience. In criminal this area never adequately developed or was allowed to deteriorate . You would think that ordinary EMPATHY would deter individuals from hurting -in any way - other people. In young men powerful sex urges hardly explain rape , for example. Here rational instruction helps: no human, no matter how much DESIRED, should be anybody's sex object . WANTING THIS OR THAT - with no internal brakes - can lead to crime against persons and property. To be sure the root of all EVIL is the self-contained human EGO . Pathologically self-centered people are perfect candidates for the jail cell. And various addictions to alcohol, drugs, gambling , sex, set you up for criminal behavior. No, the democratic socialist in me does not condone anti-social crimes. The injustice based on PRIVATE PROPERTY can be cured by political re-organization which has no need for a HATE list. The bit of the pre-Vatican II Catholic in me will not sneer at rather ludicrous illustrations of hell in the old Baltimore Catechism. But I note that most good horror fiction tends to SCARE YOU STRAIGHT . For me even the atheist H.P. Lovecraft 's COSMIC HORROR inspired tales suggest at least an unconscious recognition of the SATANIC , of some metaphysical support for EVIL in everyday life. There are PLACES - " The Willows " - where EVIL is palpable . It would not surprise me if even a professional psychiatrist - who imagined himself an unshakable materialist - ends up late in middle age consulting archaic books usually found only in the " Secret Archives of the Vatican ". Yes, perhaps that very disturbed young man sent to him by the school principal was really POSSESSED in the Dark Age sense of the word ? What was his name ? Norman . Yes, that Norman Bates boy . He managed that infamous motel , the newspaper said. What Makes a Criminal?