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Crime not only pays, it pays relatively well—about $900 per week. So say researchers who compared past surveys of nonviolent, low-level criminals to come up with the best guess on their illegal earnings. Such a figure isn't easy to reach since criminals aren't keen to report illegal profits.
They also aren't particularly reliable or trustworthy, which means surveys are problematic. In the two surveys compared for this Criminology study, however, respondents were asked to estimate earnings twice using different measures of time (days, weeks, or months), helping to weed out faulty or exaggerated answers. "I was pretty surprised at how consistent the findings were across the two datasets," researcher Holly Nguyen of Penn State University tells Quartz.
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