I was kind of interested in where this was going,
@WhiskerBiscuit, but you trailed off by continuing to say Russ’s lack of cooperation would ”go bad”and giving no specifics.
Go bad ”in a lot of ways” how? Put him in jail? That's obvious if the judge orders him to go to therapy and he won't. I agree that therapy will not help Russ, he's way too far gone. So if as expected, he doesn't make progress, or cooperate, how else aside from jail can it go bad? It was a misdemeanor, and while I don't know what his the max sentence could be, I don't think it can be increased for being uncooperative, can it?
The only way I see it going bad
for Russ, is having to do the jail time he escaped by his plea agreement. But it could go bad for
Erika or other women Russ encounters as his anger increases. I don't think jail would be that long, and it's not prison.
I suppose he could an hero in jail, although I doubt it, he's to narcissistic. Get killed maybe, only half the jail population is nuts, so being taken advantage of is more likely.
(I'm one of those who said back about page 100 he could escalate, back when everybody thought he was too weak. Now we are seeing it happen. So I'd like to see it stopped.)
But if you are an expert, I'd like to hear the other ways this could go wrong for Russ. I suspect there really aren't any, other than his original jail time. I hope I'm wrong. Nothing can fix Russ, so putting him away is the only solution to prevent a possible tragedy. Unfortunately, (or fortunately) in this country we don't put people away because we imagine they’ll do worse. So a short jail sentence, then what?