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The Devil Made Me Do It Analysis

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The Devil Made Me Do It”: Use of Neutralizations by Shoplifterrs Paul Cromwell and Quint Thurman One in every 10 to 15 people shoplifted one time and their life. They estimate about 12 to 30 billion dollars lost every year. However the article suggested that the reason why an average people shoplift is; they do not need expertise or any expensive tools to shoplift. however this article also talked about the technique of neutralization. Denial of responsibility, a denial of the victims, denial of injuries., condemning the condemmers. denial of responsibility section basically talked about how the offender believes that he or she had bad parenting or poor company or internal forces. this section also talked about; the offender lost control because

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