Being criminal does not preclude you from having an original or useful idea that may benefit society.
You may not be at liberty to travel to conferences to deliver seminars etc if you are seen as a danger to society, but apart from that no probs.
The only time there may be an issue, and not always even then, may be situations where the particular criminality and specialist knowledge overlap.
There may be a case for tighter peer review sometimes. However I'd have no issues on a paper on code breaking being written by someone who had served time for code breaking, or a paper on poisons being written by a poisoner for example.
Being criminal does not preclude you from having an original or useful idea that may benefit society.
You may not be at liberty to travel to conferences to deliver seminars etc if you are seen as a danger to society, but apart from that no probs.
The only time there may be an issue, and not always even then, may be situations where the particular criminality and specialist knowledge overlap.
There may be a case for tighter peer review sometimes. However I'd have no issues on a paper on code breaking being written by someone who had served time for code breaking, or a paper on poisons being written by a poisoner for example.
