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According to a piece in The Telegraph, self-service checkout technology helps turn law-abiding shoppers into petty thieves by giving them ‘ready-made excuses’ to take merchandise without paying.

A study carried out by two criminologists from the University of Leicester, found that people who are usually honest resort to theft simply because they can, and do not feel it is as wrong when there is no human interaction.

The Daily Mail reports that prolific shoplifters are being tracked by road cameras to stop them stealing in the build up to Christmas.

Police are using automatic number plate recognition to crack down on thieves at a time of when retailers see an annual boom in shoplifting.

The Coventry Telegraph reports that, unlike almost every other crime in Coventry, shoplifting in the city centre is on the up. Shoplifting at city’s West Orchard centre has remained fairly constant in the last few years, despite a rise nationally. One of the reasons for that is the high definition CCTV cameras set up in …