Is shop lifting any different to any other kind of theft?
Yes:
- it's faceless
- small scale
- takes little planning
No:
- it is still taking someone else's belongings
- it is deceitful
Why do people who can afford to buy things shoplift instead?
- the thrill
- people believe the companies can afford the loss because of the large profit such companies make
- embarrassed to buy them (E.G. condoms)
- compulsion
- would not pay the money
- guilty- if only stealing luxuries- to be buying them at all
Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, Paramount
Is it prostitution to take money from someone who is expecting sex but not to supply it?
It isn't but to take the money knowing the person expects sex is either agreeing to prostitution or being selfish/deceitful. If it's unknowingly the money should probably be returned unless fault in communication is with the payer,
If it isn't prostitution then is it more or less socially respectable?
More socially respectable to be a prostitute than cheat someone out of money purposely because prostitutes are not being dishonest (by being prostitutes). There is also the distrust of anyone who has lied or cheated and got money out of someone unfairly plus the realisation that many prostitutes are prostitutes because they need to be rather than they want to be.
If it is then how much is a reasonable charge?
A 'reasonable charge' is logically the amount of money to cover costs (E.G protection and location) plus money to allow the prostitute to live (food, clothes, bills, etc). A reasonable charge in a prostitues eyes could be as much as the client is willing to pay. If no-one is willing to pay then there is no busoiness but as long as someone will pay high prices then the price will reamin high.
Peep Show, 3005, Objective productions
When does a cocerned interest in someone's activities become stalking?
when it is:
- an invasuion of the individuals privacy
- selfish and obsessive
- involving taking photographs
Are some kinds of observance allowable and appropriate? Which ones aren't?
appropriate:
- watching as part of daily life
- talking to the person
- for national security reasons (crime etc)
- asking for information about the person from friends
inappropriate:
- hacking into e-mail account or listening to voicemail/answer phone messages
- following people- especially to their home
- any observance that upsets the person and disrupts their life
- anything that stops the obsever living their life 'normally'- E.G. if they follow someone instead of working
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