It's also extremely common. Like more than you could possibly imagine, including other forms of crime. I'm not sure if the reasoning is fairly complex, or boil

It's also extremely common. Like more than you could possibly imagine, including other forms of crime. I'm not sure if the reasoning is fairly complex, or boils down to a couple factors, a few I can name: 1. People inflate their lifestyles to depend on crime income, and the financial situation doesn't exactly improve when they get caught; you get new expenses 2. Pathology... ie. they just can't help themselves. If you've known a klepto, or pathological liar, you know they are often addicted. It's bizarre to see behaviors like stealing in the same way as drug addiction, but they can be. 3. They simply think they'll get away with it. Good chance they thought they wouldn't get caught in the first place. So now they just got to tweak the method, or figure it will take the same amount of time to catch up with them; by then they'll be out of it (and in prison) You can see this kind of thing with white collar crime and almost everything. Even with sex criminals. There was a guy that committed many sex assaults by intentionally attempting to infect w/HIV, through deception... (said he was using protection). Kept doing it after getting caught. Guess it doesn't make sense to question why a criminal would act like a criminal.