Low punishment rates make the puzzle why crime is not far more common.

Evidence

The explanatory challenge is not the occurrence of crime, but rather why it is not more frequent, given such low rates of apprehension and punishment. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1378

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the vault argument that people comply or harm through internalized moral reasoning rather than fear of law, mirroring claims about ordinary support for harmful policy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1378
• XREF: connects to: Raising penalty severity theoretically deters crime but complex systems prevent it — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 1135