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Crypto-Criminology: The Gothic Nature of Crime
of our own personalities. To this end, wicked forces are seen to walk the earth,

tempting men and women to do deviant things. Variations of “evil figures and
forces” reflect cultural assertions about human nature in a planetary scheme. So, the
ideas of dark images, primitive urges and gloomy scenery persist in our thinking

about crime causation.

This duality of thought, good versus evil, portrays the ongoing allegory of our
cosmic struggle. Such notions influence our reference points about the nature of

crime. The who done it is always a why done it. Motive marks the myths of our
thoughts. Often in the assorted media, we allude to the temptations of the dark side

of human behavior. In doing so, our fairy tales mingle with reality and merge fact
with fiction. In chasing urban legends, we conjure up “vampires or werewolves”
to explain deviance and criminality in others. Folk tales, fables and related stories

evoke images of imaginary manifestations. The dungeons of our mind mirror the
psychic proclivities of our personal seductions. We allow ourselves to be pulled

toward the covetousness of our gain. From the yarns we spin, the chronicles of our
thoughts hold the secrets relative to our motives and intents.

Crypto-Criminology takes us into these mental archives where we’ve filed our

allegorical enchantments. The cryptic logic, by which we rationalize, excuse
and mitigate atrocities, resides in this subconscious surreal realm of belief. Such
prurient carnality lives in the vast legerdemain of our psychic. We don’t want

to think about the nature of our own inherent inclinations. Our penchant toward
shadowy selfishness, conceited and deviant activities, is worrisome and makes us

anxious. But, we are the demons and they are us. Our self-interests come before
those of others when ever possible. We’ll go to any lengths to get what we want,
when we want. To fulfill the fantasies of our ideation, people are capable of any

act of debauchery, defiance and deception. Nefarious deeds know no boundaries
in the darkened tunnels of the human mindset. Given the pervasive extent of

contemporary media forms, criminological fact has folded behind the curtains
of fictional depiction. The visualization of a conception of evil has become a
contemporary preoccupation in both storytelling and real-life. Its linkage finds

the pathway to the unconscious regions of mental processes. Mystifying conduits
between fantasy and reality surround the senses. Our thinking provokes intrusion

into consciousness. Once there, we find ways and means to project the expressions
of the psycho-drama taking place within. The darkness of human spirit ignites the

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