That's my sense of how crime works: that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.
When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.
If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.