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Student Steals $60,000 Worth of Textbooks From College

By Baker Associates

With the outrageous prices that colleges charge for new and used textbooks and the less-than-vigilant security that often surrounds college bookstores, there can be no doubt that cash-strapped college students across the country steal textbooks and resell them in order to make a little cash on the side. Given the way that textbooks are often sold and resold between students, it would be almost impossible to tell whether or not a book that had been taken from a bookstore was one that was stolen or purchased legitimately. Therefore, textbook theft goes largely undetected at most college campuses.

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on March 28, 2011 (boomark / email).