Today shoplifting is one of the most common forms of theft in the United States. Shoplifting is now the number one cause for smaller stores to fail in today's market. The small stores are also the ones the usually carry the smaller items which are the easiest to receive the "five fingered discount" on. The reason shoplifting has become so big is because the thieves some how justify their actions and they also don't consider …showed first 75 words of 508 total…

…showed last 75 words of 508 total…or two the rest of us have to pay for their wrong doings. If these people would try to turn their lives around and get out of stage one, they might realize that their action effect them and all of society in some way. If they got to stage two and maybe even past that they would maybe start to think about all actions they do, and how they can indirectly affect many other people.