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Inflation Increases Likelihood of Felony Theft Charges
Loaded on June 15, 2021
by David Reutter
published in Criminal Legal News
July, 2021, page 21
Filed under:
Loss - Calculation/Determination of.
Location:
United States of America.
by David M. Reutter
About 45,000 Americans were imprisoned for thefts of less than $10,000, a 2016 report by the Brennen Center for Justice at New York University found. As inflation rises, the chance of a petty theft becoming a felony theft increases.
The threshold for what constitutes a petty ...
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