Each of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, taken together, require High Contracting Parties to enact legislation to provide
effective penal sanctions for those persons committing or ordering to be committed a grave breach; to search for those who commit a grave breach; and to take measures necessary to suppress all acts contrary to the Conventions other than grave breaches.
Moreover, restorative justice
sanctions are more
effective as a deterrent against shoplifting behaviour than formal
penal sanctions such as a trial and sentencing.