Shoplifting

When Consumer Behavior Goes Bad: An Investigation of Adolescent Shoplifting

Shoplifting is a troubling and widespread aspect of consumer behavior, particularly among adolescents, yet it has attracted little attention from consumer researchers. This article reports and interprets findings on the pervasiveness of shoplifting among adolescents, the characteristics that distinguish adolescent shoplifters from their nonshoplifting peers, and adolescents' views regarding the...

The Impact of Bystanders on Offenders: The Presence of Bystanders Increases the Likelihood of Shoplifting

Shoplifting is a common crime in the Netherlands and billions of euros have been spent on prevention. According to the Routine Activity Theory (RAT), the presence of a guardian can already prevent crimes from taking place. The present study will examine the effects of bystanders on shoplifting behavior in a quasi-experiment. Participants were tasked to steal a bracelet from a store, where the n...

Eating disorders among patients incarcerated only for repeated shoplifting: a retrospective quasi-case-control study in a medical prison in Japan

BACKGROUND Shoplifting is a serious problem among patients with eating disorders. For more than a decade, we have treated many patients with eating disorders incarcerated in Hachioji Medical Prison only for repeated shoplifting. METHODS We analyzed the prison records and medical records of female psychiatric patients transferred to Hachioji Medical Prison between 2002 and 2011. Based on the o...

A Comparison of the Inhibitors of Hacking vs. Shoplifting

The means by which the U.S. justice system attempts to control illegal hacking are practiced under the assumption that hacking is like any other illegal crime. This chapter evaluates this assumption by comparing illegal hacking to shoplifting. Three inhibitors of two illegal behaviors are examined: informal sanction, punishment severity, and punishment certainty. A survey of 136 undergraduate s...

Sc2016-14

Abstract In this paper, we propose a SaaS service which prevents shoplifting using image analysis and ERP. In Japan, total damage of shoplifting reaches 450 billion yen and more than 1000 small shops gave up their businesses because of shoplifting. Based on recent cloud technology and data analysis technology, we propose a shoplifting prevention service with image analysis of security camera an...

Shoplifting: an occasional crime of the moral majority.