You will be aware the law keeps changing, and some innocent and lucrative pursuits, like insider trading and market manipulation, suddenly become illegal.
There has been a dangerous change to the Highway Code. Under new legislation pedestrians may, within the law, walk out onto the road and take priority over motorists. They will be just as dead as under previous legislation. But you may not be aware that a minor offender, I don’t mean a child, must wear an identifying badge. It represents handcuffs and alerts shopkeepers to the wearers’ light-fingers. In my somewhat limited experience, living in a confined social circle, shop-lifters are usually attracted to the act and don’t want what they lift. It’s a compulsion.
I have only known two shop-lifters: one was in the same house at Eton, the other at St Mary’s Wantage. Neither were short of money. The former’s family actually owned a bank; the latter took her mother on expeditions to London stores, so maybe it was in her genes. Counter-intuitively they liked doing it when the sales were on. I’d have thought it would be more satisfying to steal full-price stuff but perhaps the shops were crowded making it easier to evade detection. Unless you are an illegal East European immigrant it is a disease and should be treated as such. I often look at the “impulse buy” stand after I have paid at a shop and wish for that white chocolate Snicker bar so I wear the handcuff badge to ward off temptation.