Why Honest People Shoplift or Commit Other Acts of Theft

This book describes the findings of Dr. Will Cupchik's more than a quarter-century of clinical investigations into the atypical theft behavior of usually honest persons, termed Atypical Theft Offenders (or ATOs)by Dr. Cupchik in one of his earlier (1985)writings.

Among the important findings of Dr. Cupchik investigations is that a great many, indeed most Atypical Theft Offenders are at risk to being wrongly diagnosed as suffering from kleptomania. Such a misdiagnosis almost invariably leads...