Juvenile Theft Mediation

Its not easy to confront a friend and ask about shoplifting. Try saying that you're concerned, and that you don't want your friend to get hurt in the long run. There are numerous resources available to break the habit. Suggest the Shoplifting Prevention and Education Support Group. This is where people who experience the urge to shoplift can attend meetings, talk about what is causing this behavior and ultimately seek help to stop shoplifting. If your friend won't stop, be sure you avoid shopping together. If your friend is caught shoplifting, and you are with him/her you will be under suspicion too and you may suffer some of the same consequences.

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JUVENILE THEFT MEDIATION

Help to Try and Change Course

In a majority of cases involving youth, peer pressure is one reason that drives many children to shoplift. Case Management is essential to correct negative behavior.

Help to Try and Change Course

Children are usually not equipped the cognitive ability to understand that shoplifting has real negative consequences. Mediation gives them the chance to take responsibility for their crime without getting involved in the court system.

Gang Influences

Maintaining a Lifestyle

Gang Influences

Gang members will often require new recruits to steal as an initiation rite. Children who feel left out may relish the opportunity to feel wanted, and if the price for that acceptance is stealing, they are more then willing to oblige.

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Thrill Seeking

Maintaining a Lifestyle

Gang Influences

Children and teens who are thrill seekers may begin to shoplift to just see if they can get away with it. They know what they are doing is wrong, but they think nothing will happen to them.

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Maintaining a Lifestyle

Some children shoplift in order to maintain a lifestyle they or their parents cannot afford. With shoplifting, these kids find they can wear the cool clothes and newest jewelry, possess the high-end cosmetics, and obtain the latest in sporting gear.

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Home Environment

Being Taught My Irresponsible Parents

Maintaining a Lifestyle

Some children who feel threat their lives are out of control may use stealing as a means to gain a sense of power that they lack in other areas of their lives.

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Poor Impulse Control

Being Taught My Irresponsible Parents

This occurs when a teen sees something they want, and believe they need it now, and will get it by any means possible, even if it means breaking the law.

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Being Taught My Irresponsible Parents

Most parents or guardians take the well-being of their kids or charges seriously. Unfortunately, some don't and train their children on the act of deception, whether that be theft or lying.

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juvenile shoplifting statistics

Addressing Juvenile Shoplifters

It is normal for a very young child to take something which excites him or her interest. This should not be regarded as stealing until the youngster is old enough, usually 3 to 5 years old to understand that taking something which belongs to another person is wrong.

Addressing stealing at an early age is essential to curb juvenile shoplifting from becoming both a learned behavior and an expensive and embarrassing family situation.

juvenile theft statistics

Juvenile Vs Adults

25 percent of juveniles shoplift, while 75 percent of adults

72 percent of juveniles make the decision to shoplift while in the store compared to 73 percent of adults make the same decision

33 percent of juveniles admit is hard to stop shoplifting, even after getting caught compared to 57 percent of adults.

47 percent of school students have shoplifted in the past year.

Juveniles entering the store as a group are 58 percent more likely to shoplift compared to 20 percent of juveniles that enter alone.

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