Who Steals from Shops, and Why? A Case Study of Prolific Shop Theft Offenders

Hunter, James; Garius, Laura; Hamilton, Paul; Wahidin, Azrini

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73065-3_4

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“…Following receipt of the warning sanction, 83% of females committed no further offences compared to 72% of males, echoing findings in Graham and Bowling (1995) and Flood-Page et al (2000) and supporting their arguments concerning the variation in processes leading to desistance for males and females. Although the mean ages for those that desisted from offending post-sanction were lower than for those that continued to offend post-sanction by 3.3 years following the warning and 1.5 years following the exclusion, in line with arguments in Laub and Sampson (2001) and Warr (2006), logistic regression revealed that rates of desistance appeared to increase with age across the sample as a whole, also echoing claims that shoplifting is more prevalent among adolescent populations (Hayes and Blackwood 2006;Hunter et al 2018).…”

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Examining offending behaviour following receipt of a business crime reduction partnership’s place-based exclusion sanction

Stafford

2019

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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This article examines the post-sanction offending behaviour of individuals who received a warning or exclusion from a Business Crime Reduction Partnership in England. Noteworthy desistance occurred following the receipt of the warning (76%) and the exclusion (37%). Displacement of offending was observed, with most of those who continued to offend doing so only at business premises away from where they received their initial sanction. Variation in post-sanction offending behaviour was explored according to offender age and sex, offence time and whether the offence concerned theft, violence, abuse or alcohol. Higher rates of recidivism were observed among male offenders and those committing abuse offences, higher rates of displacement among those who committed theft offences, and the most varied and unpredictable offending among those who continued to offend post-exclusion. The findings presented here highlight the importance of holistic, multi-sector Business Crime Reduction Partnerships that make information on offenders easily accessible to their members.

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