Rachel Shteir once again looks at society through the slightly skewed prism of those on the border. Well researched and written, hits the high points of the crime of shoplifting (which didn't begin, of course, until there were shops--before that it was just theft), the punishments for it and the ...
ROBIN HOODS 2.0 Like his forefathers, Robin Hood 2.0 steals from the rich and gives to the poor, to which category he might belong. This Robin Hood still shoplifts to redress otherwise uncorrectable social wrongs. But he is known by different names, the hero of generations X or Y: by the oxymoron...