From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 18:45:06 MDT
Adrian Tymes wrote:
> Also, consider that most criminals give no thought to
> what happens if they're caught. In the same defiance
> of rational thought that leads them to believe crime
> pays in the long run, they usually simply believe they
> won't be caught. (There are exceptions, of course,
> and for some criminals - usually the ones who think
> clearly enough about this that they do not, in fact,
> get caught - crime does pay. But that's a small
> fraction of the cases, since most people who think
> that clearly tend to find far more profitable uses for
> their time.)
>
Are you sure that's a small fraction of the cases? People always say that
criminals are dumb, but I think the sample might be skewed by only being
able to measure those who are caught. So much property is stolen, for
instance, and never returned, so that it seems to me that most theft is
actually completely successful.
Emlyn
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