Home → Publications → Reports → Crime prevention series → Retail crime → Shoplifters' motives
Crime prevention series
Shoplifters' motives
Published in:
Preventing retail crime
Susan Geason and Paul R Wilson
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1992
ISBN 0 642 17047 9 ; ISSN 1031-5330
(Crime prevention series)
Abstract
Many different types of people shoplift, and there are many reasons for their actions. Stress, economic factors, character defects and "thrills" constitute motives for shoplifting. Research which distinguishes between the attitudes of amateur and professional shoplifters towards deterrents and security is reported.