Rob Kall: Another
angle I want to look at this with is, what about -- we have a whole new world
with the internet, and there's a lot of talk about "trolls" and anonymous
behaviors. What about sociopaths and
anti-social behaviors online? Can you
talk about that a bit?
Donald Black: You know,
that's really a wonderful question. I
can't really address that because I don't know a lot about it. But I did mention in the book, and I talked
about it, and there are other cases too, of hackers. There was a hacker, well-known (I think this
was in the 90s), a guy named named Keven Mitnick, clearly a bright guy. He was arrested for hacking and has a whole
host of problems relating to that, ends up in prison -- I'm not sure what he's
doing now. He's long since been
released. But you see this repeatedly
with some of these bright -- I guess you could refer them to as computer nerds --
who are very interested in hacking, and get into trouble because of that.
But you can commit all kinds of criminal acts on
the internet, from finding underage sex partners, to hacking into people's bank
accounts, to hacking into government bank accounts. So there's all manner of crimes that could be
committed, and some of those might be considered these white-collar crimes, because
you would basically have a perpetrator who is educated, smart, has access to
computers, and so forth.
Rob Kall: Let's try
to extrapolate a little bit. When you're
in the world dealing with people and you encounter somebody, you never know if
they're a sociopath or not, and it's not like they're going to suddenly beat
you up, necessarily.
Donald Black: Right.
Rob Kall: It may
be that you're working with them.
Donald Black: That's
true.
Rob Kall: Let's say
you work with somebody who is a sociopath.
What kind of patterns of behavior would you expect? What kind of feelings would you have that
might be in response to somebody who is a sociopath? Because maybe that is interesting all by
itself, and maybe it might also apply to online behavior, too.
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