Does the crime pay or not ?

David Guchua

Form 11 "A"

January 17, 1999

Does the crime pay or not?

In this essay, I would like to discuss the problems of crime and the

criminal deeds. This question is important today as never before.

Furthermore, this is the most vital problem and therefore it is worth

discussing.

In this country the crime usually pays. What crime is ever done it

pays greatly, because there is not enough power of the government and the

police to stop the development of criminal deeds. That is why you are

"allowed" to do everything you like and more besides. Vladislav Listiev,

Dmitry Holodov, Galina Starovoitova and many other famous politicians and

businessmen were insolently assassinated and the customers of these

criminal affairs are somewhere now enjoying their freedom and sure in the

idea that the crime pays.

I believe that for honest, religious and law respecting people, it is

out of the question that crime does not pay, because they all know that if

you commit a criminal deed you will be punished by the God, or by your own

conscience. Nevertheless, in our society some people have forgotten about

justice and law. They hardly understand their role in the life, and think

that all the life is based around them and the others can be ignored or

terminated. Such ideas are like parasites distributing among others and

infecting them.

Crime pays if it is well thought and prepared. For example lets take

the robbery of the bank. Some people think that the robbery of the bank is

connected with guns, a group of well-prepared terrorists, plans. I can only

say that these people watch TV and do nothing else, because what you need

for today's robbery of the bank is a computer, a modem, and some easy

skills. Moreover, you may be confident that no one will ever catch you if

you steal little sums of money.

Finally, I suppose I have concluded that there are two main points of

view on this question. Crime does not pay or it pays. I tend to think that

crime does not pay, because if I commit a crime (I wish I never did) I will

suffer for all my life, go to police, and tell everything.