Our Unfocused Youth Lack Sophisticated Pickpocketing Skills

Kids today: “’Pickpocketing is a subtle theft,’ says Jay Albenese, a criminologist at Virginia Commonwealth University. ‘It requires a certain amount of skill, finesse, cleverness, and planning, and the patience to do all that isn’t there’ among American young people. This is ‘a reflection of what’s going on in the wider culture,’ Albenese says.” [Via]