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- Title
CRIME DOES PAY.
- Authors
Huhner, Max
- Abstract
The article examines crime as one of the best paying ventures under the social system in the U.S. The trouble with scientific investigations of crime is that people come to know the few who go to jail, that is, the 2% or so who have been actually convicted, and that people know next to nothing about the other 98% who have escaped. They have absolutely no data concerning the 85% who have never been arrested or even suspected, and who may be living lives of luxury, perhaps as respected church members in their particular community. From time to time people read about some escaped convicted criminal who has changed his name and thereafter leads an exemplary life. There are thousands of high class citizens, several of them prominent philanthropists, who, when they sit around a director's table, never hesitate deliberately to steal money from the pockets of stock holders, and in doing so have not the slightest throes of conscience, but look upon their schemes as simply matters of good business. They never, or very rarely, come into conflict with the law because they are well advised by competent legal authorities how to steal without running the danger of exposure or punishment.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CRIME; SOCIAL systems; CRIMINAL investigation; PHILANTHROPISTS; BOARDS of directors
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (08852731), 1939, Vol 30, p492
- ISSN
0885-2731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1136971