Shoplifting: A Social History by Kerry Segrave

By Kerry Segrave

Shoplifting is a convention that has been engaged in for hundreds of years, however it used to be in basic terms after the Civil conflict that the superiority of shoplifting and societal understanding of it, turned major. within the 1860s the common shoplifter was once from the decrease sessions; by way of 1900 it was once an upper-class girl who shoplifted from an enormous division shop “because” she used to be a “kleptomaniac”, and within the Sixties it was once children stealing for kicks. Shoplifting: A Social History appears on the task of shoplifting for the final one hundred forty years: the kinds of individuals singled out because the vital offenders, shops' ambivalent responses to the task, selective prosecution, the usage of high-tech antitheft units, and suing shoplifters to recuperate charges. additionally tested are media debts that have usually used exaggerated numbers whilst discussing the task and the influence of personal justice at the offense. Discrepancies in therapy of lower-class girls as opposed to "respectable" girls shoplifters might be of curiosity to women's stories scholars.

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