There will always be some people that don't think about the consequences of their actions until it's too late.
But without the threat there would be many more of these things happening.
As someone who has had past employers who did jail time, as well as current clients who got taken away in handcuffs, I have had a serious talk with my wife, and made a steadfast decision that there is absolutely no sum of money in the world that is worth having my children seeing, or knowing that their father was taken away in handcuffs (even if no time ends up spent behind bars).