I would definitely argue that recruiters per capita are more likely to have mental health and personality disorders than the general population. Whether that's because of the job causing mental health and personality disorders, or because disordered people are more likely to gravitate to the role is hard to say.

Inability to prioritize, difficulty in following through, lack of attention to details, and magical thinking are endemic amongst recruiters, it's practically the default.

Then factor in the avoidance, inability to form meaningful relationships, tendancy towards dishonesty (exaggerating, lies by ommission, white lies, gaslighting, deceptive ranges, etc), zero sum orientation, etc.. you get a pretty compelling view that recruiters are statistically more likely to veer into borderline, anti-social, psychopathy, etc.

I personally believe that the job doesn't turn people into malignant conniving liars, I think that those types are attracted to a role where they can lie, and ghost, and disrupt people's lives.

Honestly it's a fascinating role, or at least, it would be if it wasn't doing so much harm to society and the world at large. I guess it's better that recruiters are in this sort of position because if they were let loose without an outlet like that, they'd probably end up hustling grandmas in central park or getting into sextortion of minors or selling marijuana laced with fentanyl to college freshmen.

Whatever it is, it's certainly interesting that society tolerates such people instead of putting them in prison or forcing them to do menial labor in work camps.

So yes, TLDR, recruiters certainly are mentally ill criminals who harm society and should he jailed. I agree with OP.