Shoplifting (also known as increase and five-finger discount ), is unwitting theft from an open retail company. Pursuit usually involves a person who hides store belongings to the person, in pocket or under garment (or in bag, stroller, etc.) and leaves the shop without paying for it. With clothes, shoplifter can wear things from the store and leave the store in the clothes. The terms "shoplifting" and "thief" are usually not defined in law. Shoplifting crimes are generally under the classification of theft laws. It is different from robbery (burglary by burglarizing closed shop), robbery (stealing by threatening or engaging in violent behavior) or armed robbery (stealing by means of weapons). In the retail industry, the word depreciation or shrinks , may be used to refer to lost merchandise for shoplifting, but the word also covers losses by other means, such as waste, not insured, and theft by store employees.
Shoplifters range from amateur acting on impulse, career villain accustomed to being involved in shoplifting as a form of income. Career criminals can use some individuals to shoplifting, with some participants diverting store employees while others steal items. Amateurs usually steal products for personal use, while career criminals generally steal items for resale in the underground economy. Other forms of shoplifting include swapping different price tags of goods, returning fraud or eating store food without paying for it. The items that are often searched for are items with high prices in proportion to their size, such as disposable razors, vitamins, alcoholic beverages and cigarettes. Retailers have reported that 0.6% of their inventory is lost for shoplifting.
The store uses a number of strategies to reduce shoplifting, including storing small and expensive items in locked glass cases; chaining or pasting items onto shelves or clothes racks (especially expensive items); install magnetic or radio or dye sensors for items; installing a curved mirror mounted on a shelf or video camera and video monitor, hiring "store detectives" and plainclothes security guards, and prohibiting carrying backpacks or other bags. Some shops have security guards at the exit, who are looking for bags and bags and check the receipt. The shop also fights shoplifting by training employees how to detect potential shoplifters.
The first documentary evangelization began to occur in 16th century London. At the beginning of the 19th century, shoplifting was believed to be a women's activity. In the 1960s, shoplifting began to be redefined, this time as a political act. Researchers divide shoplifters into two categories: "boosters", professionals who resell what they steal, and "informants", amateurs who steal for their personal use.
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Definisi
Shoplifting is the act of consciously taking goods from the company they are shown for sale, without paying it. Pursuing usually involves hiding things on people or accomplices, and leaving the shop without paying. However, shoplifting can also include price switching (exchanging different item price labels), refund scams, "wardrobing" (returning clothes after they are worn), and "grazing" (eating or sampling store items while in store). The current price shift is an extinct form of extinction for two reasons. First, the label will be split after removal attempts, and secondly, almost all retail cashiers now scan items in the register, rather than relying on price stickers. Retailers report that shoplifting has a significant effect on their bottom line, stating that about 0.6% of all inventory disappears into shoplifters.
Generally, criminal theft involves taking ownership of property illegally. In a supermarket, the customer is allowed by the property owner to take possession of the physical property by holding or removing it. This leaves the area of ​​ambiguity that can criminalize some people for simple mistakes, such as placing small items in a pocket or forgetting to pay inadvertently. For this reason, fines for shoplifting are often lower than common thefts. Few jurisdictions have specific shoplifting laws that can be used to distinguish them from other forms of theft, so reduced penalties usually depend on the judge's discretion. Most retailers are aware of the serious consequences of making fake arrests, and will only try to catch someone if their mistakes are not in doubt. Depending on local laws, arrests by anyone other than law enforcement officials may also be illegal.
Maps Shoplifting
Individual type
Amateurs
Some shoplifters are amateurs who do not steal regularly from stores and who do not use shoplifting as a form of income (for example, by reselling stolen goods). The researchers call these amateurs "complainants," because they steal things for their personal use. In some countries, flash mob criminals, mainly consisting of teenagers and young adults, enter the store for the purpose of stealing merchandise while keeping staff busy.
Career criminals
However, there are people and groups who make a living from shoplifting and other crimes. They tend to be more skilled career criminals who use more sophisticated tactics. The researchers call professional thieves as "boosters", as they tend to resell what they steal on the black market.
Legal definition
Shoplifting is considered a form of theft and is subject to prosecution. In the United Kingdom, theft is defined as "inappropriate property (belonging to someone else) in order to permanently deprive his property, and" thieves "and" steals "will be interpreted accordingly." This is one of the most common crimes. Saws peak between the hours of 3 pm and 4 pm, and the lowest since 6 am and 7 am. In the United States, shoplifting increases during the Christmas season, and the catch rate increases during the spring break. Rutgers University criminalologist Ronald V. Clarke says shoplifter stole "hot products" that "CRAVED," an acronym he created that means "hidden, detachable, available, valuable, fun and disposable".
Common items
The most frequently sold item is cigarettes, until the store begins to keep it behind the cash register. The often-used items are usually small and easily hidden, such as groceries, especially steaks and instant coffee, razors and cartridges, small tech items such as MP3 players, smartphones, USB flash drives, earphones, CDs and DVDs, cards gifts, cosmetics, jewelry, multivitamins, pregnancy tests, electric toothbrushes and clothing.
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Economical perspective
Economists say shoplifting is a common thing because it is a relatively unskilled crime with low entry barriers that can be attributed to a normal lifestyle. People of every nation, race, ethnicity, gender and social class condemnation. Initially, data analysis of shoplifters housed and interviews with store detectives showed that women were almost twice as likely as men to shoplifting. However, since 1980, data have shown that men are the same or more likely to shoplift than women. The first average shoplifter does it at the age of ten: shoplifting tends to peak in adolescence then continues to decline thereafter. People of all races are shoplifting equally, and the poor steal only a little more than the rich. Men tend to shoplifting using backpacks, and women use prams. When caught, an average cursor has unpaid merchandise worth $ 200.
Method
Hide
Shoplifters can hide things in their pockets, under their clothes, in bags like backpacks, or personal items they carry (eg, boxes) or push (eg stroller or personal shopping cart) or if shopping center/mall, bag from other stores in the center. The use of backpacks and other bags for shoplifting has resulted in some stores not allowing people with backpacks at the store, often by asking the person to leave their backpacks at the store counter. With clothes, shoplifter can wear clothes shop under their own clothes and leave the store.
Walkout/pushout
Some buyers fill out the shopping cart with untouched merchandise, and get out of the store without paying. Security officers call this method "walkout" or "pushout". With clothes, some shoplifter can wear a jacket or jacket from the shop and walk out wearing the item. This tactic is used because busy employees may not notice someone pushing the train out without paying or walking out wearing a shop's coat. Some "pushout" shoplords are deliberately coming out quickly to avoid detection, as this gives the employee less time to react.
Many stores instruct employees other than those who are directly involved in the prevention or theft security to only deal with someone verbally, so as to avoid the possibility of liability for unwarranted injury or detention. While this may allow stolen goods to be irreversible, the loss of income may be judged acceptable given the cost of a potential lawsuit or an employee who was injured by an escaped shopper.
Blind spots
When hiding, it is often better to hide in the blind spot to avoid detection.
History
Pursuing, originally called "lifting," is as old as shopping. The first documented scholarship took place in 16th-century London, and was carried out by groups of men called lifter. In 1591, playwright Robert Greene published a pamphlet titled Part Two of Cony's Arrest , in which he described how three people could conspire to strip clothes and cloth from a London merchant. When first documented, shoplifting is characterized as underground practice: shoplifters are also swindlers, pickpockets, pimps, or prostitutes.
At the end of the 17th century, shopkeepers in London began displaying goods in ways designed to attract buyers, such as in display cases and glass cases. This makes the goods more accessible to buyers to be handled and examined, which historians have led to the acceleration of shoplifting.
The word shoplifting (then, shop-lift) first appeared in the late seventeenth century in books like The Ladies Dictionary, which, as well as depicting shoplifting, gives tips on losing weight and styling hair. Women's shoplifters of this period are also called "Amazons" or "roaring girls." The most famous female escorts in London include Mary Frith, pickpocket and fence known as Moll Cutpurse, prostitute and pickpocket Moll King, Sarah McCabe whose career of shoplifting lasted twenty years, and Maria Carlston (also known as Mary Blacke), whose life is documented by the author the diary of Samuel Pepys, who was eventually sentenced to death for theft, and who for years wore clothing and household linen in London with one or more female accomplices.
In 1699, the British Parliament passed The Shoplifting Act, part of the Blood Code that punishes petty crime with death. Persons convicted of shoplifting worth more than five shillings will be hung at Tyburn Tree in London (known as "Tyburn jig") with a crowd of thousands of people watching, or being transported to a North American colony or to Botany Bay in Australia. Some merchants find the Cursing Law too heavy, the jury often deliberately underestimates the price of the stolen goods so that the convicted shoplord will pass the death, and the reformist lawyer advocates for the lifting of the Act, but the Litigation Act is supported by powerful people like Lord Ellenborough, which marks the transport of punishment as "the summer that aired into a milder climate" and the archbishop of Canterbury, believes that strong punishment is needed to prevent a dramatic increase in crime. When the British began to embrace the Enlightenment ideas of crime and punishment in the 18th century, the opposition to the Bloody Code began to grow. The last British execution for shoplifting was done in 1822, and in 1832 the House of Lords reclassified shoplifting as a non-capital crime.
At the beginning of the 19th century, shoplifting was believed to be a women's activity, and doctors began redefining some shoplifting like what Swiss physician Andrà ©  © Matthey then just baptized "klopemania" (kleptomania), from the Greek words " kleptein "(stealing) and" mania "(madness). Kleptomania was primarily associated with rich and middle-class women, and in 1896 was criticized by anarchist Emma Goldman as a way for the rich to forgive their own class of punishment, while continuing to punish the poor for the same act.
In the 1960s, shoplifting began to be redefined, this time as a political act. In his 1970s Do It: Revolution Scenario, American activist Jerry Rubin wrote "All money represents theft... shoplifting makes you tall, do not buy, steal," and in The Anarchist Cookbook , published in 1971, American author William Powell offers tips on how to shoplifting. In his 1971 book Steal This Book , American activist Abbie Hoffman provides tips on how to shoplift and argues that shoplifting is anti-corporate. In his book The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting, social historian Rachel Shteir describes how shoplifting from a company you do not like is considered by some activist groups, such as some freegans, decentralized anarchists, CrimethInc, anarchist Spain collective Yomango and Canada Adbusters magazine, into a morally defensible corporate sabotage act.
Motivation
Researchers divide shoplifters into two categories: "boosters," professionals who resell what they steal, and "informants", amateurs who steal goods for their personal use. Motivation for shoplifting is controversial among researchers, although they generally agree that shoplifters are driven by economic or psychosocial motives. Psychosocial motivations may include peer pressure, desire for excitement or excitement, impulse, stealing because of closed judgment by intoxication, or doing so because of a necessity. Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder associated with shoplifting. Fishing is also related to family or marital stress, social isolation, having a difficult childhood, alcoholism or drug use, low self esteem, and eating disorders, with bulimist shoplifter often stealing food. Some researchers theorize that shoplifting is an unconscious attempt to make up for the loss of the past.
Researchers have found that shoplifting decisions are associated with shoplifting attitudes, social factors, shoplifting opportunities, and the perception that shoplifters are unlikely to be captured. Researchers say that shoplords justify their stunt through personal narratives, such as believing that they fabricate for being victimized, that they are unfairly denied the things they deserve, or that the retailers they stole are unreliable or immoral. Sociologists call this narrative neutralization, which means the mechanism by which people silence the values ​​within themselves that will prevent them from taking certain actions.
The 1984 program in West Texas designed to reduce recidivisms among adult juveniles identifying eight common beliefs of shoplifters:
- If I am careful and smart, I will not get caught.
- Even if I get caught, I will not be submitted and prosecuted.
- Even if I am prosecuted, the punishment will not be severe.
- Traders are entitled to get what they get.
- Everyone, at one time or another, has been shoplifting; therefore it does not matter for me to do so.
- Shoplifting is not a big crime.
- I have to have the stuff I want to fly to or if I want it, I have to have it.
- It's okay to shoplift because the merchants expect it.
Developmental psychologists believe that children under the age of nine shoplift to test the limits, and that teenagers and teenagers shoplifting primarily for excitement or sensation, are "acting up" or depressed, or being pressured by their peers.
Differences by geography
Researchers say that throughout the world, in countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Japan, and India, people tend to shoplift the same type of goods, and often even the same brand.
But there are also differences in shoplifting among different countries that reflect the habits and preferences of the general consumption of these countries. In Milan, the saffron, an expensive component of risotto alla Milanese, is often looted, and throughout Italy, parmigiano reggiano is often stolen from supermarkets. In Spain, jamÃÆ'³n ibÃÆ' Â © rico is often a target. In France, the liqueur ricard of fennel flavor is often stolen, and in Japan, experts believe that manga comics, electronic games and whiskeys are most often stolen. Bookstores and magazines in Japan also complain about what they call "digital pengutilan," which refers to shooting in-store material to read later. The packaged cheese has become the most frequently inspected item in Norway, with thieves selling it afterwards to pizza and fast food restaurants.
Economic impact and response from stores
Retailers report that shoplifting has a significant effect on their bottom line, stating that about 0.6% of all inventory disappears into shoplifters. According to the 2012 National Retail Safety Survey, shoplifting freed American retailers for about $ 14 billion annually. In 2001, it claimed that shoplifting retail costs US $ 25 million per day. Observers believe the industry's rate of marketing is more than half that of employee theft or fraud and the rest by the customer. Of course, if caught during shoplifting merchandise is commonly found by retailers and often there is no harm to shopkeepers when merchandise is delivered to the store by suspects. In addition, in many countries retailers have the right to recover civil damages to cover the cost of providing security.
According to a December 23, 2008 article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Dimerio's Market, the only full-service grocery store in Hazelwood neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was shut down for shoplifting.
Punishment
Shoplifting is considered a form of theft and is subject to prosecution.
United States
In most cases in the United States, employees and store managers have certain capturing power. Shopkeepers may refrain from being investigated (for a reasonable period of time), people they believe to be believing are trying to retrieve or have illegally taken merchandise (see shopkeepers' privilege). Store employees may also have citizen custody power, but no law giving wider powers of arrest of citizens is usually only available for criminal offenses, while shoplifting is usually a violation of offenses.
In the United States, store employees holding suspects outside and inside a store location are generally given limited arrest power by state law, and have the power to initiate criminal or civil sanctions, or both, depending on the retailer's policies and laws the state that regulates civil demands and civilian recovery for shoplifting as reconciled with the criminal law of jurisdiction.
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, infringement involving repudiation may be imposed under Part 1 of Theft Act 1986; otherwise, if the stolen item is worth less than £ 200, one may be sued under Article 176 of the Anti-Social Behavior, Crime and Police Act. With conviction, the maximum penalty is a fine or up to six months in prison if the stolen item is worth less than £, £ 200; if they are worth more than £, £ 200, the maximum sentence is seven years in prison.
Middle East
In the Islamic legal system called Sharia, "hudud" (meaning limitation or limitation) calls for "Sariqa" (theft) to be punished by amputation of thieves' hands. This punishment is categorized as "hadd," meaning a punishment that withholds or prevents further crime. Sariqa is interpreted differently in different countries and by different scholars, and some say it does not include shoplifting. But, in stores shoplifter Saudi Arabia can be amputated.
Prevention
It can be prevented and detected. Closed-circuit television monitoring (CCTV) is an important anti-shoplifting technology. Electronic article surveillance (EAS) is another method of inventory protection. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an anti-employee-theft and anti-shoplifting technology used in retailers such as Walmart, which is already using RFID technology for inventory purposes. Personnel prevention may consist of uniformed officers and plainclothes detective shops. Large department stores will use small shops and small will use one or the other depending on their depreciation strategy. The store detectives will patrol the shop that acts as if they are real buyers.
The presence of uniformed officers acts as a deterrent to shoplifting activities and they are mostly used by upscale retailers. Buyers in some stores are required when leaving the premises for their purchases checked against the receipt. Some expensive merchandise will be stored in locked boxes and require employees to get goods according to customer demand. Customers are required to purchase merchandise immediately or be left in the payment area to be purchased by customers when completing the shopping. Many stores also lock CDs, DVDs, and video games in locking cases, which can only be opened by the cashier operator once the goods have passed the cashier. Some stores will use dummy cases, also known as "dead boxes", where the boxes or casing on the shelves are completely empty and customers will not be given the items they have paid until the transaction is completed, usually by another shop staff.
Security officers are generally given the following criteria that must be met before catching a shoplifter suspect:
- You should see shoplifers approaching merchandise; select merchandise; and hide, alter or bring merchandise.
- You must maintain continuous observation of the pickpockets
- You should observe the cursor leaving the store and failing to pay for the merchandise
- You must catch thieves outside the store
Shoplifting can be detected, discouraged and prevented. A number of actions can reduce losses due to shoplifting. Many stores will place warning signs about the consequences of shoplifting or warning signs about the use of surveillance cameras in stores. This is meant to prevent people from trying shoplifting.
Closed circuit television
Closed-circuit television monitoring (CCTV) is an important anti-shoplifting technology. Resellers that focus on loss prevention often devote most of their resources to this technology. Using CCTV to catch shoplifters in that action requires full-time human monitoring from the camera. A sophisticated CCTV system discriminates scenes for detecting and separating suspicious behavior from multiple screens and enabling automatic warnings. However, the attention of regulatory authorities may be threatened by the incorrect dependence on automatic weapons. CCTV is more effective when used in conjunction with electronic article surveillance systems (EAS). The EAS system will warn a potential pickpocket and the video may provide evidence for prosecution if a shoplifter is permitted to pass the payment points or leave the depository with items not bought.
Many stores will use public display monitors in the store to show people there that they are being recorded. This is intended as a barrier to shoplifting. Some stores use cheap doll cameras. Although these fake cameras can not record images, their presence may preclude shoplifting.
Electronic article supervision
Electronic article surveillance (EAS) is a magnetic tag or radio frequency that sounds an alarm if the cursor leaves the store with unpaid merchandise. The EAS method is second only to the popularity of CCTV among retailers looking for inventory protection. EAS refers to an electronic security tag attached to the merchandise and causes an alarm to sound out of the store. Some stores also have a detection system at the entrance to the bathroom that sounds an alarm if someone tries to bring unpaid items to the bathroom. Regularly, even when the alarm sounds, shoplifter comes out casually and is not confronted if no guards are present due to the high number of false alarms, especially in the mall, due to "tag pollution" where non-disabled tags from other stores turn on the alarm. This can be overcome with newer systems and well trained staff. Some new systems either do not alarm from "tag pollution" or they generate a special alarm when the customer enters the store with a non-disabled tag so that shop personnel can delete or disable it so as not to generate false alarms when out of the store. However, spider wrap tags can be used instead of tags.
Some tags stick to merchandise with glue (not superimposed on) thieves can easily scrape tags in their pockets. The pedestal EAS cover, made of durable vinyl, offers a cost-effective means of adding marketing tools at every entrance to the store; they are also custom-made to fit any pedestal and can be printed to highlight a particular brand or seasonal promotion. They do not interfere with EAS system performance and are easy to clean or change. Some shoplifters can use jammer devices to prevent EAS tags from triggering, or magnets to remove tags. Stores can use technology to detect jammers and magnets.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an anti-employee-theft and anti-shoplifting technology used in retailers such as Walmart, which is already using RFID technology for inventory purposes. If a product with an active RFID tag passes the outgoing scanner at a Walmart outlet, it not only turns off the alarm, but also tells the security personnel what products to look for in the shopping cart.
Additional metal detector systems will be used in some stores with electronic article surveillance that detects metal surfaces. They are used to block the use of booster bags used to protect EAS tags.
Staff roles
The patrol shop detectives in the shop wear thug clothing and act as if they are real buyers. They can browse, check, carry or even try merchandise, while looking for signs of shoplifting and search for possible shoplifters. Many large retailers use this technique. The store detectives will watch a cursed suspect hide the item, then stop it after they get out of the store. Personnel of this type must follow strict rules because of the risk of very high responsibility. Many large retail stores or grocery stores such as Walmart, Rite Aid, Zellers, Loblaws, etc. Have a shop detective to keep tabs on shoplifter. Most of these stores use secret oral codes through the PA system to alert management, other personal loss prevention and colleagues that there is a shoplifter. Saving the detective must follow a suspect around the store by foot or by watching a video monitor and observing every move that the person performs so that they do not face a lawsuit to capture or arrest the wrong person.
The presence of uniformed security guards acts as a barrier to shoplifting activities and they are mostly used by high-end retailing companies such as jewelry stores and camera and electronics stores. They are also used in stores like Target and Walmart. The floor attendants greet customers, follow them as they walk about the store, and offer shopping assistance. Shoplifters are uncomfortable with this attention and can go to other places where they can steal unnoticed. In a 2008 global study conducted by NRMA, shoplifers were found to be 68 percent less likely to commit offenses if they were greeted as soon as they entered retail stores.
Some stores, such as Target, will have an employee working in the fitting room. The employee will calculate how much clothes a person takes to the room and make sure that they come out with the same amount of clothes. This is to prevent people from using fitted rooms for shoplifting. The strategies used by stores and security personnel can greatly affect a shoplifter's ability to succeed. All personnel should be trained in the technique of shoplifter used to steal merchandise and the appropriate action to take to detect this theft.
Exit inspection
Buyers in some stores are required when leaving the premises for their purchases checked against the receipt. Costco and Best Buy are well known companies that use this tactic. However, this is voluntary, since stores can not legally hold shoppers unless they have a possible cause to suspect shopper shopper.
In the United States, the buyer has no real obligation to approve such search unless the employee has reasonable grounds to suspect shoplifting, and arrests the customer or retrieves or sees the receipt from the customer without violating the law or if the customer has signed a membership agreement stipulating that customers will be subject to inspection before picking up items purchased from the store. In the case of Sam's Club and Costco, the contract simply says that it is their policy to check the receipt at the exit or that they "deserve". Those words do not determine the result of customer disobedience, and since they have no right to re-check the receipt in the first place, it may not be legally binding at all. The buyer holding the receipt has merchandise. Employees who harass, attack, touch, or hold customers or take away the merchandise they purchase may commit a suit or crime against the customer.
The bottom-of-basket mirror is typically used in grocery stores where the payment path is close and the cashier may not be able to see the entire basket to ensure payment of all items.
Casing display
Some expensive merchandise will be stored in locked boxes and require employees to get goods according to customer demand. Customers are required to immediately purchase merchandise or be left at the checkout (under the cashier's supervision) so customers can buy when they are done shopping. This prevents customers from having the opportunity to hide items. Another way to lock merchandise, especially popular in liquor stores, is to place it on a hard plastic cap stored on a regular bottle. Once purchased the clerk will remove the lid with the store lock. It is not otherwise easily removed. Many stores also lock CDs, DVDs, and video games in locking cases, which can only be opened by the cashier operator once the goods have passed the cashier. Many stores have certain items in the locks that securely lock the hook into where the item can not be removed from the hook.
Some stores will use dummy cases, also known as "dead boxes", where the boxes or casing on the shelves are completely empty and customers will not be given the items they have paid until the transaction is completed, usually by another shop staff. Some stores have been known to take this idea further by filling the dummy cases or boxes with weight, similar to the actual weight of the item by using the weight made to fit in the box. This causes shoplifters to think that the box is full, trying to steal it and end without anything. It's very popular in movie rental stores like Blockbuster Video.
Retail bag check check policy
The check out baggage policy is a form policy or management procedure or a set of standard or customer guidelines or rules set by the owner or store manager or shopkeeper. In some retail stores such as JB Hi-Fi, customers (randomly) are requested, instructed, or required or required to submit their personal bags for inspection by staff or security guards or loss prevention colleagues when leaving the store on condition of admission.
In addition, some stores such as JB Hi-Fi, BestBuy and Costco add size and process of performing acceptance checks to ensure customers buy the right goods. There is another theft scheme, where people can hide items and then only pay for one item. This is usually done by the customer or the employee. Prevention losses/security guards usually only ask for bag checks. The goal is to reduce and reduce theft and retail retribution.
Famous cases
In 1897, the assassin Lizzie Borden accused again received media attention when he was accused of shoplifting.
In 1937, French writer and political activist Jean Genet was arrested in Paris for sending a dozen handkerchiefs from Samaritaine department stores. Genet often steals from stores throughout its life, including alcohol, rolls of linen, books and clothes.
In 1966, Hedy Lamarr was arrested for shoplifting in Los Angeles. The charges were eventually dropped. In 1991, he was arrested on the same charge in Florida, this time for laxatives and eye drops worth $ 21.48. He pleaded "no contest" to avoid court appearances, and in exchange for a promise not to break any law for a year, the charge was once again canceled.
In 1980, Lady Isobel Barnett, a British radio and television personality, was found guilty of shoplifting and committing suicide four days later.
In 2001, actress Winona Ryder was arrested for shoplifting at department store Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, California. Ryder was eventually convicted of criminal theft and vandalism and became eligible for the release of his conviction after completing his probation in 2005. Ryder was initially convicted by a jury of theft/vandalism crime and was sentenced in a California Court of Appeal nationally broadcast in December 2002.
In August 2010, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's daughter, Caroline was arrested for stealing five beauty items worth about $ 100 from a Sephora store in Manhattan. He was then offered a dismissal in exchange for one day community service and six months without further violations.
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