If you need a citation to tell you that it's easier and less risky to not commit crimes, you're not engaging honestly in this conversation. As for the claim th

If you need a citation to tell you that it's easier and less risky to not commit crimes, you're not engaging honestly in this conversation. As for the claim that you'd behave as they would, were you in their situation, that's basic Situational Action Theory [0], a well studied theory in criminology that attempts to explain crimes as moral actions. The irrational focus on the relatively small number of "because I wanted to" type crimes is very popular in conservative circles, but isn't an accurate or helpful view of why crime is committed, and it's not shared by the plurality of experts who study this topic academically. [0] https://www.cac.crim.cam.ac.uk/resou/sat https://www.cac.crim.cam.ac.uk/resou/sat