In this essay I'm going to explain some of the circumstances of stealing from local stores, or any store. After I was caught stealing, I realized how much impact something you do now will affect you for the rest of your life. I now know how much of a disadvantage it is to everyone. The stores and police are tying to crack down on shoplifters by making the punishments as strict as possible. I was given a second chance by suffering the consequences of peer court and if I did everything that was necessary would be a free man.

Shoplifting affects the economy in a big way. The stores get about three percent of every dollar purchased for an item. So that means they don't make a whole lot of money out of profit. Every shoplifter that takes a product also

Just the fact of breaking the law while shoplifting should be bad enough reason not to do it. Even though it does affect your community, and you should care about that. Shoplifting is a crime and has major consequences compared to what you can get out of it. Even if peer pressure is a factor, or just the fact that you wanted the product and didn't have the money, there is no excuse, stealing is wrong. It's self righteously wrong and it's against the law, I'm sorry for what I did and I will always remember the helping hand I got and how much respect the law has given me.

When this happens it causes the companies stock price to edge lower to make up for the money lost from the bankrupt businesses. This in turn, affects every stock holder because of lower stock profits. When this happens people don’t spend as much money because they don’t have as much therefore making even more businesses go bankrupt because they don’t have enough profit to survive. This in turn then starts the process over and over again. Because of these reasons the economy starts to go in a downward spiral causing big company’s to go out of businesses which effects all consumers even more because they normally have big stock shares which devastates hundreds of thousands of people that had invested in that company.

People in your community will lose respect for you. If you do know someone that is in peer court or are friends with someone that is in peer court you will get your discipline from them, believe me I know. The community service that you get is defi

Some topics in this essay:
Economy Shoplifting, peer court, doing community, peer pressure, store money, shoplifting affects, community service, wrong it's,