28 June 2007
In brief
Britain’s middle classes are habitual criminals, with tax evasion and pinching from employers high on the offending list, a new survey reveals. The report—Law Abiding Majority?, co-authored by Dr Farrall and Suzanne Karstedt of Keele University—reveals that more than a third of people pay cleaners, plumbers or other tradesmen in cash to avoid paying tax, while a fifth have pilfered something from work. Just under a third, if handed too much change in a shop, would just keep it, while a tenth don’t pay their television licence. Many of the crimes are committed by those who are well educated and in employment, the report said.
