Suspense
You can see this by the the setting of the excerpt.
To be good. It’s just you and me, two women alone in the world, June darling of my heart; we have enough troubles getting by, we surely don’t need a single one more, so you keep your sweet self out of fighting and all that bad stuff. People can be little-hearted, but turn the other cheek, smile at the world, and the world will surely smile back.” June, although she does not hit June, tease June, or affect her like the other June does because of other mother's words.In trying to avoid trouble, June refuses to seek help; she never tells her teachers or even her mother about her problem with the Other June (lines 90–91). The mother's advice is to avoid trouble, not to avoid help (lines 20–25).
Answer:
It would clearly be better to use systematic observation with more naturally occurring offending.
One type which lends itself to this approach is shoplifting.
Three well-known observational studies have been carried out in which random samples
of shoppers were followed through stores by security officers and store detectives.
