Signs that a child is shoplifting include coming home with new clothes, make-up, CDs, jewellery, sweets, magazines — things that are outside his or her budget, and slipped into the house, perhaps, rather than paraded.


Look out for goods that may have had security tags cut off rather than removed properly — or hidden goods in cupboards or under beds. Reluctance to enter certain shops is also a sign (she may have shoplifted there), as is vagueness about where things have come from.

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