Types Of Offenders, Professionals And Those Who Are Not Professionals

Shoplifting today, is becoming a growing problem in the U.S. and in our community. It has become one of the overall most widespread crimes in the U.S. Shoplifters, while in the act, don’t always realize the effect it has on our economy and daily lives.

The obvious reason that someone would 'love' shoplifting would be that she wanted to have items she could not obtain with her current paycheck. However, the author does have a job, and over the course of the essay she does not specifically identify many expensive items that she would like to possess but cannot buy. "Everything changes when I shoplift. I'm no longer negotiating with faceless, inhuman entities that have no concern for my welfare; instead, I'm taking what I need without giving anything up." Her main complaint with capitalism is the impersonality of its

If you do shoplift you feel immense humiliation and distrust from friends and family, and your own conscious is hurt if it isn't then there is something wrong with your feelings not to feel bad about stealing from stores. Every time you steal from stores they are set back that much money and might even have to fire someone that could be one of your friends.People in the community lose respect for you.

Shoplifting is a major problem in today’s world. I myself was recently caught shoplifting and now I have to face the consequences for the bad mistake I made. The temptation of not paying for something is very big factor in why people steal. The shoplifter thinks he is getting a product for free and doesn't know what he's really doing to himself and the community. Shoplifting affects yourself, your local neighborhood and the world population.

They rationalize the stealing from people because they think it's right. Just because they are doing it to survive, everyone is doing it, and it's the only way to get ahead in their world. They think it's okay because they are stealing from people to survive. They steal people's stuff and money so they can buy food. They think

Male and female offenders alike are incarcerated every day for various reasons. Some commit violent crimes while others are arrested for drug use or public-order offenses. The difference between the two are the rates at which they are incarcerated, the length or harshness of their sentences, for the same or similar crimes committed, patterns of drug use, and previous correctional history. While men still lead in violent crime rates, 54.3 percent male verse 36.6 percent female, women are more likely than men to serve sentences due to drug-related offenses and other nonviolent property crimes (American Corrections, 2016).

Scott Decker and Richard Wright studied and wrote a book on criminals who make their livings burglarizing people’s homes. They named the book Burglars on the Job. Their study found that most of the criminals that were career burglars stole to further their drug habits. Many of these career criminals were only making a living by stealing from others.

Along with a community being hurt, his or her actions negatively affect those personally close to the shoplifter as well. Whether it is a mother, father, sibling, or child, there is always someone else being hurt when stealing takes place. It is very easy for the shoplifter to only worry about him or her and not think about the

The concept of career criminals varies depending on your interpretation. The United States Sentencing Commission defines a career criminal as

The scale of shoplifting in the United Kingdom in the past few years has changed to worrying levels, this is also true of the scope of shoplifting as well. The Office of National Statistics have reported 321,008 police recorded shoplifting incidents from April 2013 to March 2014 (See Statistics 2010,), along with this articles have shown 34 of policed forces across the UK have presented a 6% increase in shoplifting (Pidd & Collier, 2014). Such academics as Klemke (1978) have claimed that shoplifting significantly reduces with age (See Egan & Taylor, 2010), it seems to be a so-called hobby that is popular amongst the younger generations, particularly adolescents.

Research has investigated the effectiveness of treatment and rehabilitation programs designed to reduce “recidivism” in violent offenders (Jeglic, Maile, & Calkins-Mercado, 2006). Historically, what little research has been done regarding the effectiveness of offender rehabilitation and treatment has been less than optimistic. However, reexamination of prior research and current research using more sophisticated methods, with greater scientific rigor, have provided much more promising results (Jeglic, Maile, & Calkins-Mercado, 2006). Some of the first violent offender treatment effectiveness data emerged from two studies conducted at the Vermont Department of Corrections cognitive based treatment program, initiated in 1988. Both studies indicated

The offenders on my caseload are on probation or parole as of result of poor choices. The crimes committed by these individuals range from drug offense to crimes of a violent nature. Regarding the offenders on my case load, some of the thinking errors I have observed from them in my brief time as a community supervision officer is they cannot accept responsibility for there action. Some offenders claim to be victims of the system, having been denied access to resources which could have caused them to have a better life. In one situation I had the opportunity to have a in depth conversation with an offender who spent the majority of his life incarcerated; he share his life story with me and what I gathered from that was how he was living was

You might think that why would you ever think of stealing someones money or wallet, well you might if you family needs help, and you don't think there is any other way of helping. Normally, there is always another way you just might not have seen it before you did something

On the way to “Twister Two” one of my friends suddenly had a candy bar in his possession. When he was asked how he got it, he simply replied, “I stole it.” It was so amazing to me that he could do that, and act as if it was no big deal. To me stealing would be a thing that needed to be planned and executed, but to him it was just another place that he ripped off. He explained that it is easy to do, “you just grab what you want, wait ‘til no one’s looking, and then walk out.” This is when I first began pondering the idea of stealing. I had never stole before because I knew it was against my morals, but there was that rebel in me that wanted to try it. He, on the other hand, had probably stolen so many times that he could do it with his eyes closed, and he had never been caught. Lucky him.

In addition to social reasons there are also economic reasons for people to commit crime. Some of these reasons are poverty and lack of job. There are people who have a large family to maintain but do not have enough money to do so. There are some people who cannot find jobs. This will drive a person to steal. People don’t have to do illegal things in order to maintain their family people can try to get government benefits. If people cannot afford their kids what they want can drive their kids to go and steal what they want. Lack of jobs can get people to get aggressive. It also makes people to take the wrong direction. There are people that do drug trafficking or do illegal jobs for someone else such has kidnapping, committing murder, and etc. People that commit these crimes end up in prison. But even though they do go there they