For me it’s simple….don’t commit crimes in the first place lol
Then they would not be hoodlums. The question is how to be successful as a "hoodlum" not how to live life according to society's and polititians rules. You know, the people who said gambling was evil and run by hoodlums, till they started lotteries, or the ones who put people in prison for pot, but now want it sold to raise money?