"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently, the chairman of M&S, Archie Norman, said the middle classes were partly to blame for the rise in shoplifting. Retailers including John Lewis and the Co-op have described shoplifting as ‘out ...

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, ...