SHOPLIFTING EVIL.
TRIALS OF THE DRAPER A serious view of the shoplifting problem is taken by the trade journal, the New Zealand Draper, which states that the total loss by drapery firms run into a considerable sum each year. “In some notable cases it has been suggested that the offender suffers from some sort of disease which makes the appeal of our goods irresistible and the thief is described as suffering from kleptomania or an inquisitive complex,” states the journal: ‘Whether shoplifting is a disease and not a crime, or whether, all crime is not a disease, is a social and psychological problem which may he left to penologists and experts. Drapers are quite satisfied that it is bad enough to suffer from their own diseases without having to bear the ill-results of other people’s diseases.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4402, 9 October 1934, Page 3
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136SHOPLIFTING EVIL. Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4402, 9 October 1934, Page 3
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