there's all sorts of criminal activity that has nothing to do with acts of desperation. perhaps you meant most people shoplift because they are desperate. but that doesn't even seem to be the case either:

> These clusters comprise a typology of shoplifting, including Loss-Reactive (28% of the sample), Impulsive (20%), Depressed (18%), Hobbyist (18%), Addictive–Compulsive (9%), and Economically Disadvantaged (7%) types.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306624X19845979