I think this is a big factor in crime. For most here, $182,000 is definitely not worth the risks. They have good secure jobs where they could save that over a

I think this is a big factor in crime. For most here, $182,000 is definitely not worth the risks. They have good secure jobs where they could save that over a few years, where taking the money would not cost just their job but their entire career. Right or wrong doesn't even factor in, taking that money and running it a bad business decision. But there are others, dirt poor, who live off of less than $20,000 a year. Some live off even far less than that. They have no career. To them this is 10 years of payment with vastly little risk. It is nowhere near the as bad a business decision to take the money and run. In the more extreme cases, there is so much to gain with little to lose. And this is completely ignoring those who don't make this much in their lifetime. "First comes a full stomach, then comes ethics." -Bertolt Brecht