Question

A shoplifter who claims she is not really a criminal because "no one really got hurt" and "the shop can afford it" is employing the ________ technique of neutralization.

Answer 1

Answer: Denying injury

Explanation:

Denying injury  technique is the mechanism in which criminal action or activity did not cause any damage and harm to other people.Offender can use this term for justification of their criminal act such as stealing, fighting, shoplifting, etc.

According to the question,shoplifter is using method of denying injuring to justify her shoplifting act.As her stealing activity did not cause any harm to other customers , she wants it not be considered as crime.

Answer 2

Answer:

Denying injury  

Explanation:

In denying injury the defendent says that they are not at fault.

Neutralisation is a technique that allows a person to justify any criminal act. There are five techniques of neutralisation; denial of victim, denial of injury, denial of responsibility, appeal to higher loyalties and condemning the condemners.

Denial of injury occurs if the crime causes no harm to the victim. Using this technique the delinquent considers stealing as borrowing gang fighting as private argument between willing participants