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The Sociology of Shoplifting: Boosters and Snitches Today » Read Now
by Lloyd W. Klemke. 162 pgs.

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Klemke provides an up-to-date review and analysis of the research and theoretical work on shoplifting. The analysis is structured by the three questions which dominate the sociology of deviance literature: (1) Who shoplifts and how do they do it? (the descriptive question); (2) why do they shoplift?...
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Klemke provides an up-to-date review and analysis of the research and theoretical work on shoplifting. The analysis is structured by the three questions which dominate the sociology of deviance literature: (1) Who shoplifts and how do they do it? (the descriptive question); (2) why do they shoplift? (the etiological question); and (3) how do store personnel and the legal system deal with shoplifters? (the prevention/deterrence/labeling question). The author identifies the areas where consensus and confidence already exist in the research on shoplifting, then specifies the gaps in our knowledge, as well as areas of controversy and debate that continue to perplex students of the phenomenon.
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Shoplifting Prevention: The Role of Communication-Based Intervention Strategies, in Canadian Journal of Criminology » Read Now
by Vincent F. Sacco. 16 pgs.

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...Shoplifting Prevention: The Role of Communication-Based Intervention...designed to achieve reductions in levels of juvenile shoplifting. Much of the more general literature...
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Prevention of Shoplifting: A Community Action Approach, in Canadian Journal of Criminology » Read Now
by Chok C. Hiew. 12 pgs.

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...Prevention of Shoplifting: A Community Action Approach 1...programme . Statement of Problem Shoplifting is fast becoming a serious social...000 and half the size of...
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When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store » Read Now
by Elaine S. Abelson. 294 pgs.

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This book focuses on middle-class urban women as participants in new forms of consumer culture. Within the special world of the department store, women found themselves challenged to resist the enticements of consumption. Many succumbed, buying both what they needed and what they desired, but also...
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This book focuses on middle-class urban women as participants in new forms of consumer culture. Within the special world of the department store, women found themselves challenged to resist the enticements of consumption. Many succumbed, buying both what they needed and what they desired, but also stealing what seemed so readily available. Pitted against these middle-class women were the management, detectives, and clerks of the department stores. Abelson argues that in the interest of concealing this darker side of consumerism, women of the middle class, but not those of the working class, were allowed to shoplift and plead incapacitating illness--kleptomania. The invention of kleptomania by psychiatrists and the adoption of this ideology of feminine weakness by retailers, newspapers, the general public, the accused women themselves, and even the courts reveals the way in which a gender analysis allowed proponents of consumer capitalism to mask its contradictions.
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Sociogenetic Perspectives on Internalization (Chap. 3 "Everyone Does It, but Who's to Blame: Adolescents' Constructions and Reconstructions of Shoplifting") » Read Now
by Cynthia Lightfoot, Brian D. Cox. 265 pgs.

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...BLAME: ADOLESCENTS CONSTRUCTIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS OF SHOPLIFTING Jeanette Lawrence Vanessa Heinze University of Melbourne...evaluative connotations. The event is a case...
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Police under Pressure: Resolving Disputes ("Shoplifting as an Off-Duty Offense" begins on p. 81) » Read Now
by Robert Coulson. 170 pgs.

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What is it like to be a cop in America today in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict? In a risky environment when dangerous weapons are used and snap decisions are required? How should police officers be treated and their grievances be resolved? A long-time expert in the settlement of disputes...
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What is it like to be a cop in America today in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict? In a risky environment when dangerous weapons are used and snap decisions are required? How should police officers be treated and their grievances be resolved? A long-time expert in the settlement of disputes writes in a popular vein and describes real cases to demonstrate common disputes and ways to settle grievances through arbitration.
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The Legal Side of Private Security: Working through the Maze ("Shoplifting Statutes" begins on p. 163) » Read Now
by Leo F. Hannon. 244 pgs.

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Businesses today are confronted with increased tensions in the workplace, pressures by activist groups, and sophisticated means of stealing their tangible and intangible properties. Security- related responses to real or perceived threats have generated considerable legal activity and the results...
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Businesses today are confronted with increased tensions in the workplace, pressures by activist groups, and sophisticated means of stealing their tangible and intangible properties. Security- related responses to real or perceived threats have generated considerable legal activity and the results are often confusing and contradictory. Hannon's purpose is to make sense out of these cases by giving an overview of security-related legal exposures, then identifying the rights of the parties involved in varying situations, and analyzing the methods different courts use in balancing those rights.
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Preventive Interventions in the Criminal Justice System: A Process Analysis, in Canadian Journal of Criminology » Read Now
by Christopher B. Collrin, Chok Hiew. 10 pgs.

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...attempting to reduce the incidence of shoplifting in the city. Our experience with this anti-shoplifting program was presented at the Canadian...preventive programs led to...
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First Person Accounts and Sociological Explanations of Delinquency, in The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology » Read Now
by James J. Teevan, Heather B. Drybuegh. 18 pgs.

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...delinquencies: fighting, vandalism, shoplifting/petty theft, truancy, and soft drug...choice was fighting, then vandalism, shoplifting/petty theft, truancy, and soft...
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Applications in Criminal Analysis: A Sourcebook ("Larceny/Theft/Shoplifting" begins on p. 218) » Read Now
by Marilyn B. Peterson. 318 pgs.

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A practicing analyst combines broad training and research and hands-on experience in this first comprehensive reference/text assessing criminal, investigative, and strategic analysis techniques and reports, while showing how they support every facet of law enforcement today. The sourcebook gives a...
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A practicing analyst combines broad training and research and hands-on experience in this first comprehensive reference/text assessing criminal, investigative, and strategic analysis techniques and reports, while showing how they support every facet of law enforcement today. The sourcebook gives a history of the field of analysis and of the education and training of analysts; lists and describes analytical techniques; discusses public and strategic reporting and the application of analytical techniques in all types of investigations; highlights the work of agencies, organizations, and individuals in the field; and points to future needs and uses for criminal analysis. A glossary, a description of computer software, an encyclopedic arrangement of data, and a lengthy bibliography make this guide invaluable for analysts, law enforcement officers, and criminal justice students and experts.
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Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil (Chap. 2 "Sneaky Thrills") » Read Now
by Jack Katz. 374 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

...How adolescents manage to make the shoplifting or vandalism of cheap and commonplace...enticements that may draw a person into shoplifting to furies that can compel him to...
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Older Offenders: Perspectives in Criminology and Criminal Justice ("Shoplifting" begins on p. 22) » Read Now
by Belinda McCarthy, Robert Langworthy. 230 pgs.

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This book provides a systematic and scholarly examination of the major questions facing academics and practitioners working in the area of deviance and aging. Drawing on the theoretical and empirical work from established leaders in criminology and criminal justice, the editors provide large sample...
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This book provides a systematic and scholarly examination of the major questions facing academics and practitioners working in the area of deviance and aging. Drawing on the theoretical and empirical work from established leaders in criminology and criminal justice, the editors provide large sample studies that identify the long-term trends in the area of aging and crime. "This volume is a fine source of data about a minor facet of offensive behavior." Contemporary Sociology
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