Crime pays..Or does it?

Question

Think about it, not many get away with it and for those who do well they are in a way stuck with a guilty conscience? Do criminals have a conscience these days or am I just being naive.

I'd like to hear different point of views about whether or not crime pays. Is it worth commiting a crime?
If there are any statistics to prove your theory then please post them!
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Answer 1

Of course crime pays!!...but only in rare cases.
Just watch the movie catch me if you can. in the end he gets caught then gets a job at a government agency at which he makes millions of dollars for creating non-forgeable checks.

Answer 2

Crime pays! think you´d be mightily dissapointed to know that I´ve committed literally thousands of crimes and have never once been convicted and just so you know I have at least 8 other friends who have also committed crimes daily and guess what they´ve never been convicted either. do I feel guilty... NO... ok so it wasn´t stealing well ok I might have saved a few pounds by stealing paper or pens or CD´s from work but I still don´t feel guilty. think how many people comitt insurance fraud for example(no matter how small) and get away with it... if you think hardly anyone gets away with crime then you very very very naive.
statistics nothing major but, I´ve been the victim of theft 4 times and everytime the culprit has got clean away.

Answer 3

Lets put it this way when I was a rebellious teenager I often forged cheques and what started out as a joke because I was annoyed at all the different credit card companies and dept. stores trying to induce me into debt before I had barely started my working life. So I filled every single one out changing the critical data and keeping a copy (to answer security questions). Well it worked, even when I kept maxing out the cards they kept upping the limit, eventually they would want at least a minimal payment, but I would not give them the satisfaction. I was after all a fictional character. To this day I still receive those infernal things that in dept so many in society, but I restrain from lowing my standards to the level of those at the corrupted top. These people do the most harm to the largest amount, they are rarely prosecuted and often celebrated as "Pillars of Society"
It is usually the under educated and desperate, committing NON VIOLENT crimes whom are filling the profit driven prison system, where sociopath under paid guards delight in the supervision/participation in the beating, rape and abuse of the weaker inmates. These are not characteristics of a civil society.
I apologize for stereotyping here especially guards as we all know a few can ruin the reputation of many. (as the Bush/Cheney cabal) has soiled the reputation of all Americans world wide...Mary.

Answer 4

Of course crime pays,

just look at the case of :

Alcee L. Hastings Democrat Representative from Florida.

He was only the 6th Federal Judge impeached and removed from office in American history.

He was convicted of perjury and conspiracy to accept a bribe in 1989,

He has since ran for Congress and been elected twice.

Answer 5

Crime may pay for some, probably with no guilt. But I am a firm beliver in Karma- It will come back around and bite them in the butt.

Answer 6

down under the courts are so lenient to those who plead guilty but in reality they dont care about their victims.thay could win the best acting in the oscars/

Answer 7

It pays in victims, ruin families, and perpetrators locked up. I see no winners here at all.

Answer 8

The wages of sin are death...but hold on...the hours are really really good!