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Most people commit crimes because they are desperate. This is likely the root-cause here, especially given the type of crime here.

by guepe 5y ago

baggy_trough 5y ago
If you don't actually prosecute the crimes, that changes the equation.
knubie 5y ago
Desperate for makeup?
- zorpner 5y ago
  https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm "By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensibly necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably, though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty, which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into without extreme bad conduct. Custom, in the same manner, has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England. The poorest creditable person, of either sex, would be ashamed to appear in public without them."
- tablespoon 5y ago
  > Desperate for makeup? If they're desperate, they're probably desperate for cash. Makeup is small, high value, and can be resold.
berniemadoff69 5y ago
there's all sorts of criminal activity that has nothing to do with acts of desperation. perhaps you meant most people shoplift because they are desperate. but that doesn't even seem to be the case either: > These clusters comprise a typology of shoplifting, including Loss-Reactive (28% of the sample), Impulsive (20%), Depressed (18%), Hobbyist (18%), Addictive–Compulsive (9%), and Economically Disadvantaged (7%) types. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306624X19845979 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306624X19845979
Vaslo 5y ago
They aren’t stealing food or clothes. They are stealing gobs and gobs of makeup - you could argue maybe one or two sets, but it’s like 100. That’s not desperate, that’s just a “&@@$ you I do what I want.”

Most people commit crimes because they are desperate. This is likely the root-cause here, especially given the type of crime here.

by guepe 5y ago

Most people commit crimes because they are desperate. This is likely the root-cause here, especially given the type of crime here.

baggy_trough 5y ago

If you don't actually prosecute the crimes, that changes the equation.

knubie 5y ago

Desperate for makeup?

zorpner 5y ago
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm "By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensibly necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably, though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty, which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into without extreme bad conduct. Custom, in the same manner, has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England. The poorest creditable person, of either sex, would be ashamed to appear in public without them."
tablespoon 5y ago
> Desperate for makeup? If they're desperate, they're probably desperate for cash. Makeup is small, high value, and can be resold.

berniemadoff69 5y ago

there's all sorts of criminal activity that has nothing to do with acts of desperation. perhaps you meant most people shoplift because they are desperate. but that doesn't even seem to be the case either: > These clusters comprise a typology of shoplifting, including Loss-Reactive (28% of the sample), Impulsive (20%), Depressed (18%), Hobbyist (18%), Addictive–Compulsive (9%), and Economically Disadvantaged (7%) types. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306624X19845979 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306624X19845979

Vaslo 5y ago

They aren’t stealing food or clothes. They are stealing gobs and gobs of makeup - you could argue maybe one or two sets, but it’s like 100. That’s not desperate, that’s just a “&@@$ you I do what I want.”