Tag: theft employee

The NRSS indicates that shoplifting accounted for 35.7 percent of the reported shrink in 2017, which is down from 39.3 percent in 2016.

Who shoplifts? There is no typical profile of a shoplifter. Based on our experience of interviewing offenders, shoplifters can be male or female, of any race, as young as five or well into their seventies.

When I was a doctoral graduate student at the University of Minnesota during the late 1970s, I began conducting research on employee theft. At...