Shoplifting

Author : Rachel Shteir
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101516283
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Steal written by Rachel Shteir and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of shoplifting, revealing the roots of our modern dilemma. Rachel Shteir's The Steal is the first serious study of shoplifting, tracking the fascinating history of this ancient crime. Dismissed by academia and the mainstream media and largely misunderstood, shoplifting has become the territory of moralists, mischievous teenagers, tabloid television, and self-help gurus. But shoplifting incurs remarkable real-life costs for retailers and consumers. The "crime tax"-the amount every American family loses to shoplifting-related price inflation-is more than $400 a year. Shoplifting cost American retailers $11.7 billion in 2009. The theft of one $5.00 item from Whole Foods can require sales of hundreds of dollars to break even. The Steal begins when shoplifting entered the modern record as urbanization and consumerism made London into Europe's busiest mercantile capital. Crossing the channel to nineteenth-century Paris, Shteir tracks the rise of the department store and the pathologizing of shoplifting as kleptomania. In 1960s America, shoplifting becomes a symbol of resistance when the publication of Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book popularizes shoplifting as an antiestablishment act. Some contemporary analysts see our current epidemic as a response to a culture of hyper-consumerism; others question whether its upticks can be tied to economic downturns at all. Few provide convincing theories about why it goes up or down. Just as experts can't agree on why people shoplift, they can't agree on how to stop it. Shoplifting has been punished by death, discouraged by shame tactics, and protected against by high-tech surveillance. Shoplifters have been treated by psychoanalysis, medicated with pharmaceuticals, and enforced by law to attend rehabilitation groups. While a few individuals have abandoned their sticky-fingered habits, shoplifting shows no signs of slowing. In The Steal, Shteir guides us through a remarkable tour of all things shoplifting-we visit the Woodbury Commons Outlet Mall, where boosters run rampant, watch the surveillance footage from Winona Ryder's famed shopping trip, and learn the history of antitheft technology. A groundbreaking study, The Steal shows us that shoplifting in its many guises-crime, disease, protest-is best understood as a reflection of our society, ourselves.

Author : Tao Lin
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1933633786
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoplifting from American Apparel written by Tao Lin and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny autobiographical tale about growing up in the digital age, from a groundbreaking author whose writing is “reminiscent of early Douglas Coupland, or early Bret Easton Ellis” (The Guardian) This autobiographical novella is described by the author as “a shoplifting book about vague relationships,” and “an ultimately life-affirming book about how the unidirectional nature of time renders everything beautiful and sad.” From VIP rooms in hip New York City clubs to central booking in Chinatown, from New York University’s Bobst Library to a bus in someone’s backyard in a Floridian college town, from Bret Easton Ellis to Lorrie Moore, and from Moby to Schumann, Shoplifting from American Apparel explores class, culture, and the arts in all their American forms through the funny, journalistic, and existentially-minded narrative of someone trying to both “not be a bad person” and “find some kind of happiness or something.” “Tao's writing . . . has the force of the real.” —Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School

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ISBN 13 : 9783945900208
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Shoplift Books written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artists? book 'How To Shoplift Books' by David Horvitz is a guide on how to steal books. It details 80 ways in which one can steal a book, from the very practical, to the witty, imaginative, and romantic ways. Originally published in 2013, this paperback re-issue is making this sought after title available again and is published in an English, Spanish and French version. 17 more languages will be released successively.

Author : Kerry Segrave
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786450789
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoplifting written by Kerry Segrave and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shoplifting is a practice that has been engaged in for centuries, but it was only after the Civil War that the prevalence of shoplifting and societal awareness of it, became significant. In the 1860s the typical shoplifter was from the lower classes; by 1900 it was an upper-class woman who shoplifted from a huge department store "because" she was a "kleptomaniac", and in the 1960s it was teenagers stealing for kicks. Shoplifting: A Social History looks at the activity of shoplifting for the last 140 years: the types of people singled out as the principal offenders, retailers' ambivalent responses to the activity, selective prosecution, the utilization of high-tech antitheft devices, and suing shoplifters to recover costs. Also examined are media accounts which have often used exaggerated numbers when discussing the activity and the effect of private justice on the offense. Discrepancies in treatment of lower-class women versus "respectable" women shoplifters will be of interest to women's studies scholars.

Author : Michael Cho
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 030791173X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoplifter written by Michael Cho and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant debut graphic novel from the author of Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes about a young woman’s search for happiness and self-fulfillment in the big city. • “Perfectly convey[s] the loneliness of urban life.” —Entertainment Weekly Corrina Park used to have big plans. Studying English literature in college, she imagined writing a successful novel and leading the idealized life of an author. But she’s been working at the same advertising agency for the past five years and the only thing she’s written is ... copy. Corrina knows there must be more to life, but and she faces the same question as does everyone in her generation: how to find it? (With two-color illustrations throughout.)

Author : Michael C. Budden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313004161
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing Shoplifting Without Being Sued written by Michael C. Budden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-01-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shoplifiting is the single largest crime impacting U.S. retail merchants with annual losses over $21 billion and with merchants spending hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent it. To add insult to injury, individuals apprehended for shoplifting may sue stores for damages resulting from their apprehension and detention—and sometimes win. There is good news though. States have enacted merchant protection statutes and civil recovery laws which allow retailers to deal more effectively with the problem. Merchant protection statutes give retail merchants the right to apprehend and detain individuals suspected of shoplifting, while enjoying a conditional privilege of civil liability immunity; yet, despite the offer of civil liability immunity, merchants still lose civil suits with alarming regularity. To avoid losses, merchants must know and follow the specifics of their state's statutes to enjoy the immunity. Well-written with numerous real life experiences and sound advice, Budden's book will help retail store executives better understand shoplifting's enormous financial hazards to their businesses. Budden uses real life cases to show what executives and managers can and cannot do in their efforts to apprehend, detain, and prosecute shoplifters. They will also find up-to-date advice on using civil recovery laws and information about what is being done to make shoplifters pay for their crimes. Budden makes clear that to gain maximum benefit from both merchant protection statutes and civil recovery laws, retail store executives must understand how such legal measures work and how best to apply them to reduce inventory shrinkage. These retail professionals will find Budden's book a useful guide for developing their own safe, workable protection plans.

Author : Abbie Hoffman
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497549098
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steal This Book written by Abbie Hoffman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steal this book

Author : Terrence Daryl Shulman
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0741417790
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something for Nothing written by Terrence Daryl Shulman and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Shulman has developed an enhanced understanding of kleptomania, based on an addiction model. It offers the best hope we have today for effective treatment of this baffling disorder.

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Publisher : Lichtenstein Creative Media
ISBN 13 : 1933644230
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoplifting written by and published by Lichtenstein Creative Media. This book was released on with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Liz Sonneborn
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448856787
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frequently Asked Questions About Shoplifting and Theft written by Liz Sonneborn and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the National Crime Prevention Council, nearly 24 percent of shoplifters who have been arrested are teenagers between the ages of thirteen and seventeen. Chances are, a young person you know has shoplifted or is considering it. This book addresses all the issues on the subject in an empathizing, supportive tone, while imparting the message that shoplifting is not the answer. Readers learn the short and long-term impact of getting caught, and how shoplifting plays a role in self-esteem and a larger role in our economy. The book's final chapter describes programs that can help people stop shoplifting.