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I hear this repeated everywhere, but do you have any studies or numbers that back this up? All I could find is this survey of ~40000 shoplifters. Although ther

I hear this repeated everywhere, but do you have any studies or numbers that back this up? All I could find is this survey of ~40000 shoplifters. Although there's probably a bit of selection bias, they left out homeless people for example. "However, it [shoplifting] was more common among those with higher education and income, suggesting that financial considerations are unlikely to be the main motivator for shoplifting in most cases." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4104590/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4104590/

f6v 5y ago
Shoplifting and armed robbery are very different crimes.
akomtu 5y ago
Here's comprehensive crime stats from FBI for year 2019: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/table-43 https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...