Occult Crime: A Law Enforcement Primer

[joshwriting]

Google Books strikes again.

I was looking at references to underachievers, etc. and found this lovely passage:

A general profile of the Youth Subculture Satanist has been compiled by San Francisco Police Department's veteran occult investigator, Sandi Gallant.Youth Subculture Satanists are primarily male, Caucasian adolescents who exhibit various

Comments

[nagrom_the_pink]

Heh, I know some of that type.

[wyld_kat]

Ok that describes a good amount of the boys I went to highschool with almost perfectly and I'm pretty sure none of them were Satanists. Well, maybe with the exception of Dale.

[malkaesther]

Gee that description matches most of the guys I went to high school with but I don't think they were Satanists.

[jslove]

That profile is a cold reading of anyone too smart to fit in.

I once read another profile, not of satanists but of the kind of psychopath who blows people up with bombs for fun. Everything about that profile fit me perfectly, including fascination with things that go BANG, except for one item:

+ Tortures small animals and/or pulls wings off flies.

That last item seems somewhat better correlated with the undesirable kinds of deviants than the others, describing those who merely deviate at all.

In this case, "seek power and attention" seems to describe the kind of people who populate Slytherin, to pick an example not particularly at random, but not that many of them are evil.

And that's the worst item explicit in the list. If we accept "Their belief system" as the result rather than the cause, then only the conveniently vague "adolescents who exhibit various behavior problems that have gone unnoticed or undiagnosed" seems like it might be a particularly good predictor of that result. And there have to be stupid satanists also.