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Shoplifting Schemes Show Amateur and Professional Thieves
A 1965 Citizen-Times passage describes shoplifting patterns across social groups. It details motives ranging from hardship to thrill, methods like booster boxes and clothing concealment, and examples including a mother with a revolver, teens concealing items in boxes, and thieves using restrooms to adjust loot. It also explains kleptomania as a minority motive and notes the prevalence of drugstore thefts.
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Midwest
Furniture