The number of financially comfortable people stealing ‘a little something’ here and there seems to be on the up. Helen Coffey asks how and when theft became the new socially acceptable pastime for the ...

"They know that, if they got caught they could say, 'Oh my gosh, how silly of me'," Emmeline Taylor a professor of criminology at City, University of London, told the paper. The trend in middle ...

coined by City University criminology professor Emmeline Taylor as an acronym for “seemingly well-intentioned patrons engaging in regular shoplifting”. These people “would not steal using ...

You wouldn’t steal a car,” the Noughties video piracy PSA infamously pointed out. “You wouldn’t steal a handbag. You wouldn’t steal a television.” Twenty years on, it feels like many ...

It seems that most middle-class shoplifting is carried out at big supermarket chains: robbing the comfortable to feed the comfortable. I "helped myself to more than £1,000 of goods" over 12 months, ...

England has gone from being a nation of shopkeepers to a nation of shoplifters with barely an eyebrow being raised. While police find the time to investigate nine-year-old children for playground ...