I agree. They are responsible for their actions and need to be held as such for their actions. I was fulltime mom to my sociotpathic stepson. I pleaded for the schools, the law, and his father to hold him accountable. As long as I had no help my efforts were useless. The term sociopath was used to describe him as early as his young teens. Schools, counsellors, doctors and even the law suggested their worries as such. But none of them would help me do anything. NO ONE held him accountable - until the night he woke me up waving a military jungle knife and the police finally responded to my pleas to arrest him.