This chapter introduces the student to the social and cultural dynamics of what has become known as 'volume crime' including mobile phone theft, vehicle related theft, drug crimes, computer theft, stolen goods and especially anti-social behaviour. Everyday life is now characterized by the social, economic and cultural dynamics of the world of commodities where the drama and excitement of life becomes in itself leisure. These dynamics effect both the production and consumption of stolen commodities; that is both theft and consumption. The driving motivational force for both is the desire for distraction provided by 'having'. This chapter examines the culture of distraction that is part of everyday life and the striving for social survival that becomes a central motivational cultural imperative in contemporary society. Envy creates a permanent anxiety that produces the fear of being without and therefore left out. We must have, we must consume, to feed the fear of social loneliness. In this way markets, both legal and illegal are created and it is in this way that volume crime comes into being. Within this context this chapter concentrates on street crime and more particularly mobile phone theft which are seen to be an essential element of contemporary consumer patterns.