China’s new ‘social credit system’ turns Orwell’s ‘1984’ into reality (nypost.com)

You get denied from jobs, school, and are essentially outcast from society because of your low score and then sent to a re-education camp because your score is too low and likely to commit a crime.

After destroying a person's livlihood, friends, and family...why wouldn't they resort to crime? It will most likely be the only way to survive.