That applies to crimes dealing with theft or assault. I.e when you are willing to break basic rules of society, that indicates
On the flip side if you run something like a drug trafficking business, you can probably run a generic shipping business if you make the same risk adjusted money without reverting to do doing anything illegal.
In the same way, if you run a piracy website, you most likely can just get paid big bucks at a tech company to do very easy work because you are likely smarter than most people there, and cruise control without worrying about doing anything illegal.
> if you run something like a drug trafficking business
Violence and other crimes are inherent in the illegal drug trade once you get to any high level. Your local friendly weed dealer may not hurt anyone physically but the people above him are another matter.
> you can probably run a generic shipping business if you make the same risk adjusted money
The propensity to take a course of action based on "risk adjusted profit" rather than "right or wrong" is a pretty good predictor of future criminality.
>Violence and other crimes are inherent in the illegal drug trade
In the movies yes.
In real life, you have hired security, in the same way that a large company will have hired security.
Right and Wrong is not the same thing as legal vs illegal. Many morally wrong things are legal, and many morally neutral or right things are illegal.