Once again this approach presumes a mental process that simply does not exist - 'If I act like a criminal, my family will lose their home ...'.
It's farcical.
Criminals don't look at themselves in the mirror in a morning and say to their reflection "I'm a criminal, time to go and do what criminals do …".
These people don't think logically, they don't think at all, they simply act, so concepts like 'consequences' for their actions do not enter their minds in relation to themselves, much less those around them.
Let's be honest, any criminal who considers consequences is not going to be a criminal for long - but they are, because consequences are simply not in their world view.
Add to that the punishment of innocent family members who have no control over what their relatives do, and you have the usual situation -
A politician who speaks a Mail-friendlsy sound-bite without thinking it through first, because it gets a knee-jerk thumbs-up from Mail readers who think with their tempers first.