Why Do Shoplifters Steal... And Why Do So Many Continue To Steal Even Atter Getting Caught? Is it need, or is it greed...or is itsomething entirely different that tempts approximately 23 million people to steal from retail stores each year. Except for the drug addicts and hardened professionals who steal for resale and profit as a business, most shoplifters are decent people who are otherwise law abiding citizens. The vast majority of adult offenders have …showed first 75 words of 1401 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1401 total…or forgiving after a shoplifting incident, what is appropriate is for retailers, prosecutors and judges to jointly support punitive sanctions along with community based educational rehabilitation programs. Peter Berlin is the current Executive Director of Shoplifiers Anonymous, Inc. (SA). He is also an international consultant on retail theft, a publisher of newsletters to retailers and the criminal justice system and a former Director of Retail Security. He is located at SA headquarters in Jericho, NY.