To Catch A Shoplifter

Michele Van Ryn

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FriesenPress
16 March 2023

Autobiography: general; Memoirs; Police & security services; Criminal procedure

Once upon a time, Michele Van Ryn believed shoplifting to be an act only those under teenage peer pressure or those struggling to make ends meet would perform.

She was wrong. Shoplifting truly knows no bounds-but who shoplifts, and why?

In To Catch a Shoplifter, Michele lifts the curtain on twenty years of working a job with many names: retail investigator, floorwalker, secret shopper. What she presents is people with a wide variety of backgrounds, motivations, and strategies, sacrificing absurd things just to save a little bit of cash.

Whether people shoplifted because they thought they could get away with it or because they needed to scrape by, Michele has caught them all. Join her as she tells over fifty funny, mindboggling, and sometimes heartbreaking stories of apprehending shoplifters.

By: Michele Van Ryn
Imprint: FriesenPress
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 413g
ISBN: 9781039165946
ISBN 10: 103916594X
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 16 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michele Van Ryn has been working with loss prevention services for twenty years. With the encouragement of staff in the myriad stores she has worked with, she wrote To Catch a Shoplifter to explore the reasons people shoplift and why even good and upstanding citizens might be drawn to such an activity. She currently lives in Peterborough. This is her first book.