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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"shoplifting"”.
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The economics of shoplifting
… these variables. Using this model, the crime of shoplifting was examined first from the point of view of the retail merchant and then from the viewpoint of the potential shoplifter. It was shown that, because of his profit-maximizing nature, the retailer neither should nor does attempt to alter …
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Shoplifting as a consumer misbehaviour: an exploratory study of shoplifting applying a consumer behaviour approach
… quantitative study, concerned with investigating shoplifting as a form of consumer behaviour. The theory of planned behaviour (Ajzen, 1991), a theory used in consumer research, is applied to situational crime prevention theory, in order to investigate the factors which facilitate or inhibit …
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Pilferers not professionals: The shoplifting experiences of fourteen Canadian women.
Shoplifters and shoplifting is the focus of this thesis. Fourteen adult, female shoplifters in Windsor, Ontario and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia were interviewed over a period of three months in 1993. The motivations of these Canadian women were explored in an attempt to answer the questions of who, …
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Crime Detection from Pre-crime Video Analysis
… specifically targeting behaviors indicative of shoplifting, through the advanced analysis of CCTV video data. The study introduces an innovative approach that leverages augmented human pose and emotion information within individual frames, combined with the extraction of activity information …
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Jaunuolių vagystės iš fizinių parduotuvių: reiškinio analizė /
… in violent crime, but a twofold increase in shoplifting. Shoplifting causes huge losses for shopkeepers every year. An analysis of the scientific literature has shown that this type of offending can occur for both social and biological reasons, and the criminological theories chosen - E. …
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Miranda rights comprehension and advice to juveniles
… version (standard or simplified), and crime (shoplifting or shooting). Across all conditions, most participants felt that juveniles would not fully understand their rights and advised juveniles to invoke them. The simplified Miranda warning did not improve expectations of juvenile …
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Punishing the Guilty and the Guiltless: An Investigation of Consumer Deviance Inspired by Company Wrongdoing
… punishable behavior such as price-switching and shoplifting (Tian and Keep 2002). But what marketplace experiences prompt consumers to engage in such deviance and what can explain its "epidemic" status in society (Berry and Seiders 2008)? Recent research has focused on dishonest behavior …
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Juror Bias in a Mock Case Involving a Defendant With Kleptomania
… the legal outcome for a defendant arrested for shoplifting. Results suggest that a defendant with kleptomania was more likely to receive a not-guilty verdict and less likely to receive a criminal justice intervention than a defendant without mental illness. Causal attribution did not affect …
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Gender, crime and discretion in the English criminal justice system, 1780s to 1830s
… crimes which attracted the death sentence — shoplifting, pickpocketing, and uttering forged Bank of England notes. The period of the study covers the 1780s to the I830s, and is centred on London and Middlesex. It considers involvement in each crime by gender. The approach seeks to avoid the …
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The Effects of Gender on Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol Sentencing Disaprities in Pennsylvania
… these types of crimes. These crimes include shoplifting, petty theft, and forgery. On the contrary, certain types of crimes are more likely to be committed by males and receive more harsh sentences than if a female were to commit them. These crimes include aggravated assault, burglary, and …
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Homemade
A short story collection about teenagers.
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Homemade
A short story collection about teenagers.