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    My question involves criminal law for the state of: OR

    Is there a specific criminal charge for sociopaths who intentionally plot ways to break the law to try to get away with it? In the particular case I'm thinking of, this would be a person who has no other motivation to break the law, than to humiliate the detective who is constantly assigned to his case. He's playing a game of cat and mouse with the police, probably just for attention, power, and revenge.

    Besides wasting police resources and being an obvious sociopath. Is this some sort of specific crime like menacing, public nuisance, or something even more serious? So far the guy has gotten away with it every time, so he thinks he's God or something. He's actually quite smart, but he has some loose screws.

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    Default Re: Sociopath Who Commits Crime Just to Try to Get Away with It

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    My question involves criminal law for the state of: OR

    Is there a specific criminal charge for sociopaths who intentionally plot ways to break the law to try to get away with it? In the particular case I'm thinking of, this would be a person who has no other motivation to break the law, than to humiliate the detective who is constantly assigned to his case. He's playing a game of cat and mouse with the police, probably just for attention, power, and revenge.

    Besides wasting police resources and being an obvious sociopath. Is this some sort of specific crime like menacing, public nuisance, or something even more serious? So far the guy has gotten away with it every time, so he thinks he's God or something. He's actually quite smart, but he has some loose screws.
    Ask Dick Wolf.

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    Default Re: Sociopath Who Commits Crime Just to Try to Get Away with It

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    My question involves criminal law for the state of: OR

    Is there a specific criminal charge for sociopaths who intentionally plot ways to break the law to try to get away with it?
    No. The person may be charged for each offense he commits. All crimes are done with some specific intent. The reason behind the intent really doesn’t matter except perhaps as a consideration in sentencing after conviction.

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    Default Re: Sociopath Who Commits Crime Just to Try to Get Away with It

    Besides "wasting police resources and being an obvious sociopath" This is sort of funny, sounds like something that some of our present politicians might bring up, "I'm going to stop crime by arresting everyone who's an obvious sociopath!" In fact, it just isn't all that easy to define and diagnose sociopathy. Though truly some people who are charged with various crimes seem to have personality disorders, those types of behaviors, narcissistic personalities, character issues, etc. are intermixed with the total personality in such a way that it cannot be pulled out as a one size fits all diagnosis. There's no simple blood test for it, for sure. Our legal system has the responsibility to respond to and react to the specific criminal behavior a person displays, we don't often get the opportunity to wipe out the person to take care of the pattern of behaviors as a whole.

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    You walk in a very interesting world, Question4law. I'm glad I don't know the people you know.

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