Yes, but WHY are they repeat shoplifters? In most cases, the answer is poverty and/or addiction. People are either stealing things to live (food, clothes, infant formula, etc), to consume to feed their addiction (in the case of alcohol), or to sell on to raise money to be spent on necessities or drugs/alcohol.
Shoplifting isn’t going to go away with tougher sanctions or swifter court hearings.
Just 104 shoplifters behind thousands of offences
All but three of 104 repeat shoplifters continued offending after they had been charged, the Met says.
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