Also you have a local crime status, so you can be a criminal in one system but clean in another. So you might think you are clean but certain bounty hunters with the right equipment have the ability to detect you are wanted and attempt to claim the bounty on your head.
Basically its back to the days of the wild west, somebody puts a poster up of you saying Wanted -dead or alive £10,000 reward. Well actually just kill him.
And some players hunt out those players.
In the future maybe there is posters of players on bulletin boards in spacestations for maybe the top 100 most wanted criminals, maybe giving your last known location, and people could take up the contract to hunt you down and you could have 100s of people after you.
Idea - Or if you deploy your weapons it warns you?
In some sytems deploying weapons is a crime, so buy then you are already too late for a warning.Unless you get a time limit to put them back.