Shoplifting Is Not an Icon of Crime

It's really easy to slip something into your bag, like out of your basket and into your bag. Or if something doesn't scan 8 times, you're like, oh, fuck it. I'm just going to put this in my backpack. That's how a lot of it happens. It is people who would never think of putting a snickers in their pocket and walking out of a store because that feels like stealing. The academics call it folk crimes,. where we think of things like speeding as very different than beating somebody up.