Why do some dumb crooks out themselves on social media? Theodor Reik's 1925 book, "The Compulsion to Confess: On the Psychoanalysis of Crime and of Punishment," covers it. About half the papers are dry lectures, but the case studies of late-19th/early-20th century European criminals (mostly murderers) who outed themselves are fascinating. 'Compulsion' wasn't published in the U.S. until the 1950s. Reik is all but forgotten now, but IMO he was the first serious criminal profiler. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Reik