Shoplifting is now at record levels. Here’s how it went from a crime punishable by death to police ‘turning a blind eye’
Charlotte Wildman, University of Manchester Wherever you are on the political spectrum, shoplifting has come to symbolise today’s “broken Britain”. On the left, it is an inevitable product of the cost of living crisis and poverty, fuelled in part by growing levels of drug and alcohol addiction. On the right, it is a