I estimate that the number of people involved in crime decreased in America in the last 25 years, maybe from 40% to maybe 10%. This would include minor crimes of poverty such as shoplifting, illegal immigration and illegal drugs.
If you are interested in learning more about the crime and deception in the Soviet Union, I recommend watching " Grandads-Robbers" (1972), "Gentlemen of Fortune" (1971), "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style" (1967), "Operation Y & Other Shurik's Adventures" (1965), " Autumn Marathon" (1979), "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" (1980), and "The flight" (1971). These are works of art that reveal the crime and deception in a beautifully artistic way.
In the Soviet Union, I took part in overall deception and crime against the empire. I made a choice not to harm or offend individual people. I learned a skill of shoplifting and stealing things from soviet federal factories. My crimes were small indeed, but they became a part of my experience. I felt like a hero. I felt smarter than the guards and it felt fair to get a little reward since typically what I stole was there in excess anyway. It may be hard for you to see how things can be in excess, but this was a norm in the decaying empire. The empire was evil and absurd. Things were done against any logic. The goodwill of bureaucrats was close to impossible. The empire owned everything: the land, buildings, apartments, passports of individuals, the right of people to move, to work, and much more. Dissidents were physically prosecuted. Senseless wars were the norm. Nuclear and thermonuclear weapons in huge excess were developed and constantly tested. Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe was hidden from the people causing unnecessary harm. Another nuclear catastrophe happened near Sverdlovsk my city of birth around the time of my birth (1963-1964).
Most importantly, I felt as many then and now - I felt underutilized. My talents and desire to be useful were prevented and prohibited from being applied. The solutions to existing problems were obvious (as are obvious now), but I and others were prohibited from doing anything positive. Most indicative was the army draft and use of scientists and engineers for low qualification and largely useless works at farms.
I hated giving bribes because these were spoiling the officials. But when it came to questions of survival, I bribed the police to speed up the processing of my documents. These were minor crimes, but it took me much effort to overcome a sense of shame. At the time, I had a family with two small children who were often hungry and I had trouble earning enough for food. They were not sick from hunger but were certainly underfed.
In conclusion: crime and deception are present in all countries on Earth. Our culture often allows for crime and deception. Even in questions of terrorism for example in Israel, the opinions are divided. Even killing other people is often considered heroic, depending on which side of the conflict. Humanity is fragmented into many groups and each group often considers others to be competitors or enemies. Criminals almost always justify crime, deceivers justify their deception. People rarely do something for the first time. Criminals learn from each other, deceivers learn from each other. Since we think empirically to a large extent, we often do things just because the result of them is pleasant or helps our survival. If something works, then we do it again and again. Thinking of consequences is an option which not everybody exercises. People just shift around until they find a niche in terms of society, morals, friends, mates, and so on. Criminals often do crimes in groups and are often respected in their groups as good members. White-collar criminals are trained to do what they do by their parents, coworkers and friends. They consider selves a cast, different and above others. For each crime and deception, it is easy to find ideology and justification in movies, literature and other layers of culture. Criminals are romanticized in movies. I wonder whether criminals like and learn from these movies.
All that said, crime and deception harm humanity greatly. Crime and deception make our industry and ways of life very inefficient. Most damaging are wars and the manufacture of weapons. These collect the largest toll from humanity's economy and industry.
The way to solve the problem is education and open discussion. Much needs to be done here. Key nodes that control the education of masses are news media, movies, celebrities, governments and the internet. Computer games do program the minds of youth, mostly males in technological countries.