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The risks which the offender must confront are twofold: the risk of their theft being detected and if it is, what are the consequences? The risks associated with detection are knowing what risks are present, how to assess the likelihood of detection and whether to have a test run before committing to the theft. The impacts if the theft is detected on the offender requires them to identify likely outcomes, their emotional response to these outcomes, their appetite for risk and their capacity to rationalise their behaviour while maintaining their confidence in the likelihood of success of the theft.
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
—E.W. Howe
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Curnow, D. (2021). What Are the Risks If I Do Steal from This Organisation?. In: The Psychology of Embezzlement. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74439-7_6
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