Deciphering the Criminal Mind

I am appalled by “The Seductions of Crime” (by Garry Abrams, Dec. 28). It takes a UCLA sociologist, Jack Katz, to discover that criminals are uncompetitive, suffer from inferiority complexes and have a strong desire to assert themselves? What else is new? Sorry about all the trees that had to die to permit these “revolutionary” observations to be printed.

JUERGEN STENGEL

Riverside