I realize that this might be a bit of a lame thread , but I thought it would be interesting to do a bit of sharing and comparing in regards to this topic .

As I've wrote on my previous thread , the main reason I got interested in OC was due to a childhood fascination with criminals . I was never a street kid or anything like that , however the fact that I grew up in an environment filled with criminal classmates very much lent itself to my current fascination with OC .

I was also given the assignment of field researching Appalachian crime networks for my journalism major in college and while I didn't succeed , the few stories I did pick up from former hangers on of that particular subculture piqued my interest even further .

P.S. I don't intend on encouraging anyone to post anything incriminating , so here is my disclaimer .