{"id":13139,"date":"2015-10-09T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13139"},"modified":"2015-10-09T08:08:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T12:08:07","slug":"the-average-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-average-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"The Average Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100915_1206_TheAverageT1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An academic paper by Geoffrey Fain Williams looked at the life of a typical thief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People seem to engage in thievery for short periods \u2013 usually around a year.<\/li>\n<li>Reported earnings from stealing are low.<\/li>\n<li>Those who engage in risky behaviours such as smoking are more likely to engage in theft.<\/li>\n<li>Most thieves have stopped their dastardly heists by their late 20s \u2013 those that haven&#8217;t don&#8217;t earn a lot of money from it.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s possible that there are professional thieves that are so uncommon they aren&#8217;t captured in the data, or don&#8217;t respond to such surveys.<\/li>\n<li>Or maybe the average thief is just a risk-taking adolescent who earns little more than they would from a part-time job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The above summary is taken from the abstract. You can read the full paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S016726811500205X\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S016726811500205X\">Science Direct<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2015\/10\/the-incompetence-of-thieves.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An academic paper by Geoffrey Fain Williams looked at the life of a typical thief: People seem to engage in thievery for short periods \u2013 usually around a year. Reported earnings from stealing are low. Those who engage in risky behaviours such as smoking are more likely to engage in theft. Most thieves have stopped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100915_1206_TheAverageT1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13142,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions\/13142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}