Shoplifting among teens has become a huge problem in today's society. A direct result is a decrease in net cost by over thirteen billion dollars a year. The temptation of just hiding something away and not having to pay for it is a large factor for some people. These people just think that they are getting a product for free, not knowing what they are doing to themselves or others around them. Shoplifting only affects you, but everyone including your community and your family. In this essay, I will explain the consequences of stealing and how it not only hurts the business owner but everyone involved as well.
Shoplifting affects tens of millions of people. Almost thirteen billion dollars were lost annually. This is money that comes directly out of hardworking Americans pockets. On average stores on make three cents for every dollar of merchandise they make. By
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I no longer had any respect for myself. I knew what I did was wrong but for some reason I still did it. I still remember that day in the jail cell. All I could think of how didi get here. I used to be a model person. iI always had great grades, I was very active in my community and I was not depressed of anything. Why didi feel like I had to go into the store that day and take all that items that were honestly meaningless to me. I lost everything when I stole, I lost respect for myself and I ruined my future.
I want to go to college, get a great job, and marry someone who I love and get to spend the rest of my life with. After I was arrested I thought I lost all of that. My idiotic shoplifting may have just jeopardized my whole life. Even now that I know the charge will not go on my permanent record, I still have to go one with my life knowing what I did. What I did will forever be burned in the back of my mind. One dumb act could have ruined my huge future and that something that I will always regret even when it did
Prohibition was the nationwide outlaw of sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcohol. The purpose of prohibition was to improve the lives of Americans, and to protect individuals, families and society from the effects of alcohol. Alcohol abuse destroyed the lives of many, especially in a time when women were dependent on men for support. The Temperance movement was the country's first anti-alcohol movement, the movement campaigned against alcohol use. It was rooted in religious objections to consuming alcohol and the belief that society would benefit if alcohol was unavailable. The two major groups who battled to outlaw alcohol were the Woman's Christian Temperance Movement and The Anti-Saloon League. In January 1929, Prohibition was put into law by passing the Eighteenth Amendment to the
The book titled Beyond Bars: Rejoining Society After Prison offers invaluable lessons of how both men and women may successfully depart prison and return to society. The book was written by Jeffrey Ross and Stephen Richards, both of whom are college professors and criminal justice experts. The population of prisons across the United States has increased dramatically in recent decades despite overall crime rates decreasing during the same time period. Approximately seven million American people are in some form of correctional custody. Between the years1980 and 2000, America’s prison population increased by 500 percent. During the same time period, the number of prisons grew by 300 percent (Ross and Richards, xii). Close to 50 percent of people admitted to confinement have previously served time, exemplifying that the criminal justice system “recycles” inmates through the system again and again (Ross and Richards, xi). Unfortunately, many convicts simply do not remember how to or are ill-equipped to return to society once their sentence ends. Ross and Richards, through their valuable lessons within their book, seek to lessen the problems that ex-prisoners may face when released from prison.
Shoplifting, employee theft and check fraud top retailers’ concerns. (2005). NPN, National Petroleum News, 96(11), 12. Retrieved May 11, 2005, from ABI-Inform Online
Currently, statistics indicate that 60 percent of criminals have reoffended at some point in their lifetimes. Many argue that prison causes an individual to reoffend, however many oppose this belief and argue that other factors cause a high rate of reoffending. This controversial topic raises multiple questions regarding prison and its role in reoffending, as well as what other factors can cause an individual to reoffend. The question then raised is: “to what extent does prison cause an individual to reoffend?” This question will help to determine the major factors causing individuals to reoffend, as well as give insight into additional statistics related to the topic. Numerous sources have been identified and critically analysed in order to help identify what causes individuals to reoffend. The following report will focus on the points for and against prison causing high rates of reoffending, conclusions that have been made, and ways to reduce the number of individuals who commit multiple crimes.
Life is bursting with temptation everywhere and based on peer pressure, if you can’t get something you want you rather find another way to get it. Individuals of the community rather act out of action without thinking about it first, which can lead them to the severe consequences of their actions. Then you later think what I did was wrong, I could have prohibited that by doing it differently. Afterward, you feel a great deal of emotions running through your mind; encumbrance, sorrow, and helplessness. These reactions cause you to overthink and make you feel compunction than you already feel. At first you feel calm and assumed you can get away with it, but unfortunately it landed you nowhere but deeper in the grave. Even in its effects in “Shoplifting”
The actions of thieves can be related to a slippery slope. They may start out by stealing something small, but nothing is keeping them from stealing something of more worth, so the tendency is to escalate their behaviors.
Focus on happy thoughts such as being with your family and friends again. Bear in mind that your life in prison is not the end for you and you can still be with your family. But to do so, you have to avoid getting into trouble that can prolong your sentence.
More than 600,000 prisoners are released into the main population of the United States every year. Of that 600,000, 30 percent end up back behind bars within six months of their release, and 70 percent end up returning to jail within three years (Reisig, 409). Upon release, many criminals find that life on the outside is harder on them than it was when they were convicted, sentenced, and locked away. People who know them may become just as prejudiced as the interviewers and landlords who deny them the chance to earn a living or a place to stay. Through the continued use of labels like criminal, thug, crook, and felon, many released offenders feel ostracized and isolated. Their friends and families may turn their backs on them, taking away the few things they have left...
The reasons as to why individuals desist from crime can range from genetic, environmental, social, or psychophysiological. One belief focuses on the idea that criminals desist from crime through pro-social development and a worthwhile career path. In a study conducted by Aresti, Eatough and Gordon (2010), five ex-offenders participated in interviews about their lives as offenders, and their new found lives as productive members of society. Results show that four major themes emerged from the five men. First “being stuck” in their offending ways, second “defining moments” or moments of self-change, third “life in transition” or moments in the self-change process, and fourth “a new world” which encompasses the men’s new and reformed lives. The men in the study each had defining moments, typically the realization that they were going to be locked up for many years or losing out on time of their lives acted as this defining moment. This produced angst and made the men question their existence;
With excitements, many teens get hurry out to disobey authority or involvement in crimes. The young may be engrossed to the mob’s way of living as it stays out of the law and takes place in illegal behaviors. Others prefer to be in the mob because of the many problems they encounter at homes. With the promise of a greater life by the gangs then the excited teens get attracted to the illegal activities of the mob (Bryman, 2008).
At a turning point in my life I became very outspoken, I’ve seen more doing my job and in life that people only see in movies. Those experiences and the abuse haunt me. I made the choice, and criminal law was all I knew, I was good at my job and I provided well, for my girls. Now they provide for me. After all, each of us do what we must for reasons many others will never understand, nor is it anyone’s business to judge.
Attention Getter – Let’s say that you made a mistake. Let’s say that you tried something one time out of curiosity and have not been able to stop doing it ever since. Imagine if this mistake you made was taking an illegal, addictive drug such as heroin. Now picture yourself in prison due to your addiction, without any option to get treatment.
Shoplifting is a very big problem in America. Shoplifting affects more than the offender. It overburdens the police and the courts, adds to a store's security expenses, costs consumers more for goods, costs communities lost dollars in sales taxes and hurts children and families. Not all shoplifters are the same, there are two distinct types. There are also many ways to help prevent shoplifting.
Applying the Wisdom of The Ages teaches people to let go of their previous bad mistakes. There are plenty of people who remain stuck in the same rut for the majority of their lives because of their inability to let go of the past. They continuously think about what they did wrong and what they could have done to change the outcome. The fact is that what is done is done. There is nothing you can do about your past except change the way you think now.
I was to be sentenced a period of 10 years for the murder of the old man. I knew I had done wrong to the old man. He had never ever made any misjudgements against me in fact he only encouraged me to become a man of dreams. One that would complete his life by doing what he was dreaming for. The dream I always wanted was to have a normal life with a wife and 2 children with a well-payed job. This was all a man could ever ask for and need. I knew what I had done was wrong. So now I would try to get my life straight and make my life just like a dream. The dream the old man always wanted of me. I would have to endure a lot but the troubles are nothing compared to the prize at the end.