Deterrence,and the Slow Death of the Shop Theft Act in South Australia

South Australia, Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Council, 12 October 2000, 162–6 (KT Griffin, Attorney-General, South Australia).

Ibid 163.

Ibid 164.

Ibid.

Menkel-Meadow Carrie , ‘Restorative Justice: What Is It and Does It Work?’ (2007) 3(10) Annual Review of Law and Social Science 162.

Shop Theft (Alternative Enforcement Act) 2000 (SA) s 5.

Ibid s 6.

Menkel-Meadow , above n 5, 176.

SAPOL, ‘South Australia Police Annual Report 2002–2003’, 36; SAPOL, ‘South Australia Police Annual Report 2003–2004’, 28; SAPOL, ‘South Australia Police Annual Report 2008–2009’, 164; SAPOL, ‘South Australia Police Annual Report 2012–2013’, 119.

SAPOL, ‘South Australia Police Annual Report 2002–2003’, 139; SAPOL, ‘South Australia Police Annual Report 2003–2004’, 139; SAPOL, ‘South Australia Police Annual Report 2005–2006’, 143; SAPOL, ‘South Australia Police Annual Report 2007–2008’, 155; SAPOL, ‘South Australia Police Annual Report 2009–2010’, 173; SAPOL, ‘South Australia Police Annual Report 2010–2011’, 135; SAPOL, ‘South Australia Police Annual Report 2012–2013’, 117.

Ethics approval granted by the University of South Australia's Research Ethics Committee on 3 August 2014.

South Australia, Parliamentary Debates, above n 1, 162.

Ibid.

Ibid 163.

Ibid.

Nelson Diana Perone Santina , ‘Understanding and Controlling Retail Theft’ (Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice No 152, Australian Institute of Criminology, May 2000) 2–3.

Dabney Dean A Hollinger Richard C Dugan Laura , ‘Who Actually Steals? A Study of Covertly Observed Shoplifters’ (2004) 21(4) Justice Quarterly 697–8.

Ibid 694–695.

Ibid 696.

Kransnovsky Therese Lane Robert C , ‘Shoplifting: A Review of the Literature’ (1998) 3 (3) Aggression and Violent Behaviour 229–30.

Ibid 229.

Ibid.

Tickell Shelley , ‘The Prevention of Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century London’ (2010) 2(3) Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 300.

Chamberlin Thomas , ‘Police crime maps reveal $7 billion a year as thieves target major shopping centres’, Courier-Mail (online) 8 July 2013 <http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/police-crime-maps-reveal-retailers-lose-7-billion-a-year-as-thieves-target-major-shopping-centres/story-fnihsrf2-1226675599624>.

Kajalo Sami Lindblom Arto , An empirical analysis of retail entrepreneurs‘ approaches to prevent shoplifting’ (2011) 24(4) Security Journal 270.

Nelson Perone , above n 16, 1.

South Australia, Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Council, above n 1, 163.

Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) s 74A.

Betts v Police (2001) 80 SASR 163 supports this view. This case is a successful appeal in respect of a sentence of imprisonment for six weeks for the theft of a watch, shaving cream, artificial sweetener and confectionery, together valued at only $25.06. The appellant was initially sentenced to imprisonment because he came before the court with an ‘unenviable criminal history.’

Katyal Neal Kumar , ‘Deterrence's Difficulty’ (1096–97) 95 Michigan Law Review 2386.

Bagaric Mirko , ‘Instant Justice? The Desirability of Expanding the Range of Criminal Offences Dealt with on the Spot’ (1998) 24 Monash University Law Review 258.

Cornish Derek Clarke Ronald (eds), The Reasoning Criminal: Rational Choice Perspectives on Offending (Springer, 1986); see also, Richie Donald , ‘Sentencing Matters, Does Imprisonment Deter? A Review of the Evidence’ (Sentencing Advisory Council, April 2011) 1–2.

Kransnovsky Lane , above n 20, 222–224.

Katyal , above n 30, 2389–2390.

Braithwaite John , Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation (Oxford University Press, 2002) 116.

Ibid 117.

Ibid.

Deng Xiaogang , ‘The Deterrent Effects of Initial Sanction on First-Time Apprehended Shoplifters’ (1997) 41 International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology' 294–295.

Bagaric , above n 31, 258.

Deng , above n 38, 286.

Braithwaite , above n 35, 119.

Bagaric , above n 31, 270–1.

Shop Theft (Alternative Enforcement Act) 2000 (SA).

South Australia, Parliamentary Debates, House of Assembly, 14 November 2000, 486 (IF Evans).

[2003] SASC 218 (Unreported, Gray J , 29 July 2003).

Ibid [20].

Currently the police can lay a charge of theft irrespective of whether the Act can possibly be used to deal with a minor shop theft offence: See Shop Theft (Alternative Enforcement Act) 2000 (SA) s 4.

South Australia, Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Council, 25 October 2000, 231 (Carolyn Pickles).