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https://www.ncsl.org/human-services/youth-homelessness-overview
- 4.2 million youth/young adults within the US experience homelessness, 700,000 unaccompanied minors
https://recfaces.com/articles/shoplifting-statistics
- 55% of shoplifters began shoplifting when they were teenagers
- 89% of children know other children who shoplift – and 66% of respondents say they hang out with those juvenile shoplifters.
- “For every $330 worth of products stolen, a retailer has to sell an incremental $300,000 worth of goods to break even,” said Burt Flickinger, managing director of retail consultancy Strategic Resource Group. “We’ve talked to retailers across America who say shoplifting is now 2% to 3% of their total sales.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6511812/
- Child poverty rates across countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) was 13.5% in 2014 (OECD, 2017), and is increasing in several OECD countries (OECD, 2017). The negative consequences of child poverty are known to include dental caries (Peres et al., 2005; Delgado-Angulo et al., 2009; Tanaka et al., 2013), eczema (Sasaki et al., 2016), wheezing (Lynch et al., 2014), decline in pulmonary function (Amemiya and Fujiwara, 2018), suspected autism spectrum disorders (Fujiwara, 2014), and low uptake of vaccination (Klevens and Luman, 2001; Nagaoka and Fujiwara, 2016; Sakai, 2018). Moreover, the long-term impacts of child poverty have also been established, such as risk of higher functional disability (Fujiwara et al., 2013), depression (Gilman et al., 2003; Tani et al., 2016), and dementia (Dekhtyar et al., 2015) among older adults.
https://spark.bethel.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1864&context=etd
https://www.pricegun.com/shoplifting-is-americas-1-property-crime/
- On average 550,000 shoplifting incidents per day
- 13 billion dollars stolen from retailers per year
- 10% of the US population or 27 million shoplifters today
- 25% juvenile shoplifters 75% adult shoplifters, 55% of those adults say started in late teens
- 72% juvenile 73% adult make decision to shoplift while in the store
- 1 in 48 shoplifters caught
- 47% of high school students shoplifted this year
- 50% shoplifters turned to police