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Women Shoplifters, 2004.
Discusses the book, "When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store", by Elaine Abelson.
1,758 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 56.95
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Elaine Abelson?s 1992 book, "When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store", is an excellent sociological analysis of a particular type of crime, that of shoplifting by middle-class women. The paper shows that this category of crime is often presented as puzzling, even as irrational. Why should such women shoplift when they could easily afford to buy the usually inexpensive items that they steal? The paper discusses the new theories and medical diagnoses that have been developed to explain this phenomenon, including the idea of kleptomania.
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"Middle-class white women (although the book does not dwell very much on the issue of race, it is clear that standards of who could steal what were very much race-based as well as class-based) were given a moral and often even a legal ?out? when caught with stolen goods: They could plead that they were affected by the incapacitating illness of kleptomania. But this new form of irresistible urge was in many ways ? or at least Abelson argues ? an ad hoc invention by psychiatrists along with the women who were their patients. This was not a case of mental illness in the most limited clinical sense. Rather both shoplifting and kleptomania can both be seen as the symptoms of the social pressures that were squeezing women."
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The Effects of Shoplifting on Society, 2008.
This paper assesses the effects and consequences of shoplifting from the personal view of the author.
1,633 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 53.95
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This paper outlines the societal costs of shoplifting and how it effects everyone involved, regardless of whether it is the consumer, the store employees, other shoppers, loved ones of the shoplifter or the shoplifter him or herself. The paper also discusses both the legal and social consequences of shoplifting. The author then asserts that ultimately, society must instruct children on the dangers of shoplifting.
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"Besides the tangible costs to society and the personal embarrassment that arises from shoplifting (even unintentional shoplifting), this activity hurts those working within the store on a bunch of different levels. A supervisor or employee who has something stolen from within his or her department feels embarrassment, too, and that discomfort is often accompanied by a sense of violation. For instance, if you have spent hour upon hour organizing your little section of the store, cataloguing everything, making sure that the prices are correct and that nothing is damaged during the course of a long day, then discovering that an item has been taken without payment is a little like having something taken from your own home. I am grateful that I have never had to go through something like this at my job, but I know people who have and I know how hurt they feel - and how they keep themselves awake at night wondering if they could have done something to prevent the situation from happening."
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Shoplifting, 2002.
History of shopolifitng and what to do about it.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 115.95
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This paper develops a background, history and approach to the problem of shoplifting. It includes what has been done to deal with the problem and make recommendations based on the writer's personal experience and point of view about the subject.
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Shopliftingu, 2002.
The paper discusses who shoplifts and debunks a few common misconceptions about why people do it.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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The paper points out the costs of shoplifting to everyone and offers some reasons as to why many retailers avoid the subject of shoplifting. The author explores some of the technological solutions used for combating shoplifters. The author believes that employees can create a climate were shoplifting is effectively deterred.
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VeriChips, 2004.
An analysis of a sub-dermal microchip, VeriChip, including an overview of its uses.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper discusses the world?s first sub-dermal, radio frequency identification (RFID) microchip, VeriChip. The paper claims that the chip can be used in a variety of security, financial, emergency identification, and other applications. The paper describes how society can benefit if these microchips are used with ex-convicts, sexual offenders, shoplifters, and so on. The legal issues are also covered in the paper.
From the Paper
"Since its announcement on December 19, 2001, VeriChip has captured enormous media attention in the United States and worldwide (Wave 2002). On March 25, 2004, Applied Digital Solutions, Inc., an advanced technology development company, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, VeriChip Corporation, awarded the exclusive rights to distribute VeriChip in three states, including Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee, as well as distributors in Puerto Rico and Central America (VeriChip 2004). The distributors collectively agreed to quotas to purchase 66,763 VeriChips and 4,945 scanners over the terms of the agreements and each distributor?s plans call for using VeriChip for security-related and emergency identification applications (VeriChip 2004)."
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Kleptomania, 2007.
This paper is an extensive discussion about kleptomania as a psychological disorder and as a community business security problem.
3,400 words (approx. 13.6 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 96.95
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This paper explains that kleptomania is an impulse-control disorder in which the person has irresistible impulses to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value. The author points out that, because kleptomania appears to be associated more with character or personality issues than with simple depression, combination therapy seems to be the best therapeutic approach. The paper relates that the full impact of kleptomania on stores is not understood because apprehension rates for shoplifting are low and store owners turn over only twenty-four percent of the perpetrators they catch. The paper reports that studies indicate that shoplifting is not confined to specific gender, race, age or social class; however, they are disproportionately young and female.
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"Various disorders such as mood disorders, eating disorders, substance abuse and impulse control disorder can be linked to kleptomania. In the "American Journal of Psychiatry", August 2003, The article 'Psychopathology and Co-morbidity of Psychiatric Disorders in Patients with Kleptomania' discusses a study conducted that compared patients with kleptomania, patients with alcohol abuse or dependence, and psychiatric patients without impulse-control disorders or substance-related disorders on several key psychopathological dimensions."
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Causes of Criminal Behavior, 2003.
This paper investigates the life of a serial killer to find out how this kind of behavior starts.
2,977 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 87.95
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Today, deviance and crime plague American society. There are vast degrees of deviance, including a simple shoplifter, a car theft, or the killing machine with no conscience, otherwise known as the serial killer. But how is this killing machine created? Where and how does this type of criminal behavior begin? The paper explains that answers to these questions must be addressed in order to stop the formation of this deviance. The essay investigates the life of one of the most infamous serial killers, Henry Lee Lucas, to answer these questions. In a search for the answer, the question of nature vs. nurture is inevitably brought up. Scientists and psychologists have debated whether a child?s upbringing forms behavior or whether an individual is born with a personality. Most scientists believe that biological dysfunctions and physical illnesses are the factors that bring on this type of deviance. Most psychologists will argue family, society, environment, and the media cause criminal behavior. While many factors contribute to this frightening deviance, the root of criminal behavior lies in the home and the family structure of children. The ability to understand and repair such deviance prevents people from becoming either victim or victimizer.
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"Exposure to extreme violence in childhood can also lead to violent behavior in the child. In the Lucas household, violence was, for the most part, the only type of behavior exhibited. Lucas grew up believing that this was normal, so his tolerance level for violence remained abnormal. Marshall B. Clinard and Robert F. Meier, authors of Sociology of Deviant Behavior, describe, ?a person becomes deviant because of an excess of definitions favorable to violation of norms over definitions unfavorable to violations of norms?the predominance of deviant definitions leads to deviant behavior? (86). In other words, everything that went on in the Lucas household defied all the norms of society, but to Lucas, even though these weren?t the norms of the larger society, they became the norms for his behavior because he grew up with them and did not know any differently."
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Ritualistic File-Sharing, 2002.
This paper explains how the intellectual property laws are ignored on Napster, Kazaa, Gnutella and other file-sharing networks.
3,245 words (approx. 13.0 pages), 11 sources, $ 93.95
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This essay is an in-depth analysis of file-sharing technology (Napster, Kazaa) and its relation to modern intellectual property laws. In order to structure the analysis, theoretical work from two prominent communications scholars - Harold Innis and James Carey - is employed. These authors divided media into two types: Innis categorized media as either time-biased or space biased, while Carey said media was either ritual or transmission. Ritual/time-biased media resist control and intellectual property laws, and file-sharing networks are ritual and time-biased. This essay defines the medium of file-sharing networks, intellectual property, the terms used by Innis and Carey, and shows how the nature of the medium explains why intellectual property laws are ignored on file-sharing networks.
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"From a modern, literate, perspective the current economic and legal debate over file-sharing is a teeming with contradictions. Most people find the thought of shoplifting a CD repugnant, yet many of those same people wouldn?t hesitate to borrow a copy from a friend or download a song from a complete stranger. What is the cause of this dichotomy? Can one be a consumer and a thief at the same time? This essay proposes that answers can be found by examining the media in question. Most modern investigation of this subject, critical and legal, is rooted in one specific perspective, but media scholars like Harold Innis and James Carey have in fact proposed two. Logically and historically, intellectual property rights appear in one and not the other. The following pages will define the medium in question and the two perspectives. Next these definitions will be used to place the medium in the most appropriate frame. Once the medium is categorized, the work of Innis and Carey will be applied to show how the nature of the medium determines the role of intellectual property."
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Juvenile Delinquency, 2005.
This paper discusses some theories surrounding delinquency among juveniles.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper examines some of myriad concepts of juvenile delinquency including differential association and social learning theories. The author points out the implications of these theories and how these critical approaches are applied to various acts of delinquency. The paper looks at specific offenses, such as shoplifting and drug use.
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"Juvenile delinquency is a growing problem in the Western, industrialized world. But while everyone admits that delinquency is a problem and one that should be dealt with lest the legions of offending youth swell, there is less agreement on what must be done or even what the underlying causes of delinquency might be. The purpose of this study is to examine some of myriad concepts of delinquency, the implications of those theories, and how those critical approaches are applied to various acts of delinquency. It is hoped that through this examination, a better understanding of the complexity of delinquency will be reached. Delinquency among juveniles is not a problem with a single, or easy, cause. The factors contributing to delinquency are numerous and must be understood as such if any headway is to be made against this growing social problem."
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