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Is there a term for this?
Is there a term for someone performing a negative action in order to receive media attention?
Or, more specifically, performing a secret act of vandalism in order to bring media attention to whatever it was that was vandalized?
Don't worry, this is for a book I'm writing, not an actual tactic I'm planning :)
"Politician" would be the person performing the action. I need to know if there's a legal term or any kind of terminology around the behavior.
Smart@ss ;)
3 Answers
- Anonymous9 years ago
According to all the CSI/NCIS shows I watch, and then Criminal Minds, they say something like "the unsub gets involved with the case." (Just in case you don't watch Criminal Minds, "Unsub" is short for "Unknown Suspect.")
We just had a very creepy side of this happen locally. Two teen boys killed a 12 year old girl over "parts for a bike." Obviously, the dead girl "went missing," but her two killers helped the cops canvas the neighborhood by going door to door asking if anyone saw her. Creepier yet, apparently, they knew the victim's family well enough to post a supportive sounding post on her brother's Facebook page. And then between the time their mother reported her sons to the cops and the time the cops arrested them, one of the boys posted the girl's name on her brothers FB wall. The brother asked what about her, and the kid wrote back, "My brother didn't mean to kill her. Sorry."
How's that for as creepy as it gets?
