Most Britons admit to petty crimes
Something different.
What is the approach of the study and its agenda?
Why do they say what they do?
Why cant they say we are over taxed and indebted by the Bankers who then construct Laws and more laws to keep us under control and to make us into law breakers?
To me it is obvious that quote "consumers are sheep and wolves -- easy prey and preying on others" when it is based on a secular and Judeo Central Banking system.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070625/tuk-uk-britain-crime-fa6b408.html
LONDON (Reuters) - Almost two-thirds of Britons regularly commit petty crimes, according to a report, challenging the notion that the country is made up of a law-abiding, respectable majority.
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A survey by researchers at Keele University found that 61 percent of people they questioned had committed one of a variety of crimes.
These ranged from paying cash in hand to avoid taxation, keeping money when given too much change, taking something from work or avoiding paying their TV licence.
Of those who confessed to breaking the law, 62 percent said they had committed up to three crimes while 10 percent admitted nine or more offences.
The report, based on a survey of just over 1,800 people aged 25-65, said the findings cast doubt on what politicians liked to describe as a "law-abiding majority".
"Although the middle classes are engaging in this type of behaviour, they are also eager to blame when they find themselves victims of such behaviour," said the report, published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King's College, London.
"Consumers are sheep and wolves -- easy prey and preying on others. Offending and victimisation are as closely and intricately linked at the core of society as at its margins."
It concluded that most people do not believe in the value of laws and rules, and shrugged them off in the pursuit of their interests and desires.
"They even regard law-abidingness as a disadvantage," it said.
"Contempt for the law is as widespread in the centre of society as it is assumed to be rampant at the margins and amongst specific marginal groups," said Professor Susanne Karstedt, one of the report's authors.
"Neither greed nor need can explain why respectable citizens cheat on insurance claims or in second hand sales -- and do not hesitate to discuss their exploits with friends in pubs."
in the name of ALLAH the Knower
I know this comment is not totaly acceptible for everbody but please at least consider it as an alternative theory
Long before the discovery of genetic sciences people were surprised by phenotipical properties of living creatures.How a body with brown color hair can have a black hair child? That was really something out of thier knowledge.
There are always a lot of things out of our total knowledge. Just like the events after our death.
But what shold be our dispose towards these materials? Should we totaly neglect them?
We always consider the profits of delving into such dark problems.
If it benefits us then we should start to investigate them.
How do we research on after death events? By reading true religious books,aka getting our info from God's,the Omnipotent, men or women.
I admit that "a secular and Judeo Central Banking system." is responsible for these behavior but that is not the whole story as
"Neither greed nor need can explain why respectable citizens cheat on insurance claims or in second hand sales -- and do not hesitate to discuss their exploits with friends in pubs."
Don't you think there is a relationship between these behavior and the 45% of their children being born out of marriage?
Don't you think there is a link between these mischiefs and the cruelty of many UK people againts Indians and Africans?
Don't you think that a nation could be spoiled util their last strings of humanity be rotten?
Don't you believe that God the Maker will punish the killers of innocent people,partly in this world and much more severly in the lasting world?
I emphasize that the divine rules are not restricted to UK people. Everybody from pagans or jews to moslems and christians are subjected to them.
Being a theif can be explained by poverty,but being in love of robbery can be only explained by revenge of God the Maker.
Salam of Allah the Maker upon who seeks light.