How Do Honest, Trustworthy People Become Theives and Embezzelers

Usually the person who would normally never think of doing anything dishonest is placed in a disparate financial situation: an illness, aged parent, disabled spouse, a troubled child. That , combined with an innocent mistake or accident sets the crime in motion.

Let's say an office manager who is responsible for taking payments and making deposits is overwhelmed one day by incidents in the work place and innocently forgets to include cash in the daily deposits. The cash sets in the desk drawer for the weekend or some days and no one has noticed or made comments. The office manager discovers the cash and thinks about corrrecting the mistake but also thinks about all that cash that no one has noticed. After a few more days of no commnets the office manager takes the cash to pay off a bullying  debt collector or a medical bill vowing to replace the money. But, as life would have it, the financial situations worsens and soon the office manager is skimming cash on a regular basis. It goes on for months perhaps years and thousands or perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars are missing until an auditor discovers the descrepencies.