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.