Caught Shoplifting

Duration: 25

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1974

Creator: INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Explores and illustrates the major causes, economic issues, and human motivations behind the act of shoplifting: desire for adventure, plain boredom, a feeling of alienation, or a need to conform. Describes techniques employed by large department stores to deter and apprehend shoplifters, including use of visual and mechanical devices and security personnel. Discusses legal and emotional consequences of a shoplifting arrest, and the moral and ethical issues involved.

Complete Record: Explores and illustrates the major causes, economic issues, and human motivations behind the act of shoplifting: desire for adventure, plain boredom, a feeling of alienation, or a need to conform. Describes techniques employed by large department stores to deter and apprehend shoplifters, including use of visual and mechanical devices and security personnel. Discusses legal and emotional consequences of a shoplifting arrest, and the moral and ethical issues involved.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.