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Discussion7-Chapter 13

Discussion7-Chapter 13

Q If you were advising a large business, such as Wal-Mart, what would the policy be concerning shoplifting? Address: 1. Under what conditions could you stop a suspected shoplifter? 2. Could the store detain the suspect, and if so, who is authorized to detain a suspect? 3. When would an employee be authorized to confront and detain a suspected shoplifter...for example, as soon as someone sees him take an item, once they go through the checkout without paying, once he leaves the store?

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Actually, shoplifting is only the burglary of product from a store or business foundation. Accordingly, it has similar general components of theft (i.e., the unapproved taking and expulsion of the property of another with the goal to forever deny the proprietor of that property). Nonetheless, numerous states have laws explicit to shoplifting, basically differing the general components of robbery by including the component that the element being denied of their property is a retailer (Hayes, 1999). A few states additionally have various punishments for shoplifting, regularly upgraded over different types of robbery to perceive the social effect of this wrongdoing.