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This Is Your FBI: The Skyway Man

This Is Your FBI · March 7, 1952 · 28 min · 4,598 words

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Crimes are committed for many reasons. Revenge, fear, ignorance, hate, but the greatest number are caused by greed. The dictionary defines greed as acquisitive desire beyond reason, but that definition does not explain why certain people are possessed by that unreasonable appetite. For the explanation we must go to the field of psychiatry, which tells us that

in the case of many adults, greed is a result of insecurity stemming from their youth. In security which often is a result of a lack of affection by parents toward a child. Sometimes it is a result of over-protection of a child by parents. The insecurity coming when the child goes out into the world and finds himself unable to cope with the society which does

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