Allowing & Rewarding Bad Behavior

I have always loved celebrity gossip. It's a guilty pleasure and it's fun. Anyway, I've been watching a lot of trials lately and I'm not talking about the BIG ones like Jody Arias & Whitey Bulger (though I've followed both). I'm talking about the Lindsay Lohan's, the Chris Brown's, & other big/small named celebs. I hate to say it but WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED to CONSEQUENCES for your actions. The old saying, "You do the crime you pay the time" that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. 

When did it become okay for people to start behaving badly and then for that behavior to be allowed or worse rewarded? I am so sick of hearing about another person usually a celebrity (i.e. Actor, Sports Star, Reality TV Star, A-List, RICH) doing something horrendous (usually a criminal act) and they then get off or are rewarded for it--by the press, by getting a reality TV show or just the fact that they are in no serious trouble. 

It's become all about who you are, who you know and what lawyer you hire. I don't understand why, when or how this became the "norm". When did it become acceptable to allow someone to commit heinous crimes over and over and over again and say "Oh but that's okay, she had a hard childhood" or "He comes from a rough background" BLAH BLAH BLAH it's all a bunch of BULLSHIT. Then they are let off AGAIN with a warning or some pitiful sentence like probation and/or community service when they should be thrown in jail.

I believe once you hit a certain age; you need to stop blaming everyone & everything for your BAD behavior and start taking some responsibility and accountability for your actions. This goes for EVERYONE not just the well known. I've seen this bad behavior in all parts of life. I've worked with doctors who think they are above their support staff b/c we are not physicians or we don't have letters behind our names. (I have a great story about a doctor I worked with who flat out LIED on legal documents and he tried to blame ME) but I digress.