I would imagine many of those people are some of the same types you have in (serious) organized crime.
Some of that bunch are pretty much like you describe. Some have terrible background, some don't, but what ever the reason they've grown up to be just really bad people.
Many of them are probably just easily duped. Not necessarily low-IQ dumb, just people lacking initiative to do anything with their lives and prone to believing propaganda. Not that prone to do bad things on their own, but on the other hand they make for great foot soldiers, especially since they don't question anything.
Many of those guys in that latter group will probably secretly hate some of the stuff they're doing, but since they're prototypical followers and sidekicks, what they think doesn't matter much.
And many of them will just be happy to have a group to belong to, and if their group tells them it's okay to be a sadistic murdering s***, they'll believe it.
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