Retail Crime, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
International Evidence and Prevention
Crime Prevention and Security Management Series

Coordinators: Ceccato Vania, Armitage Rachel

Language: English

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This edited collection provides an original and comprehensive take on retail crime and its prevention, by combining international data and multidisciplinary perspectives from criminologists, economists, geographers, police officers and other experts. Drawing on environmental criminology theory and situational crime prevention, it focusses on crime and safety in retail environments but also the interplay between individuals, products and settings such as stores, commercial streets and shopping malls, as well as the wider context of situational conditions of the supply chain in which crime occurs. Chapters offer state-of-the-art research on retail crime from a range of countries such as Australia, Brazil, Israel, Italy, Sweden, the UK and the USA. This methodological and well-researched study is devoted to both academics and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds whose common interest is to prevent retail crime and overall retail loss. 

The chapters 'Crime in a Scandinavian Shopping Centre' and 'Perceived Safety in a Shopping Centre' are published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.





Part 1 – An Introduction to Retail Crime
Chapter 1. Retail crime; Vania Ceccato and Rachel Armitage
Chapter 2. International Trends in Retail Crime and Prevention Practices; Joshua Bamfield
Part 2 – Products, Settings and Offenders in Retail
Chapter 3. Can We Ever Know Which Objects Thieves Most Desire?; Brian Smith, Ron Clarke
Chapter 4. Who Steals from Shops, and Why?; James Hunter, Laura Garius, Paul Hamilton and Azrini Wahidin
Chapter 5. COPS and Robbers; Emmeline Taylor
Part 3 – Retail Environments, Crime and Perceived Safety
Chapter 6. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and Retail Crime; Rachel Armitage, Chris Joyce and Leanne Monchuk
Chapter 7. Shoplifting in Small Stores; Paul Cozens
Chapter 8. Crime in a Scandinavian Shopping Centre; Vania Ceccato, Örjan Falk, Pouriya Parsanezhad and Väino Tarandi
Chapter 9. Perceived Safety in a Shopping Centre; Vania Ceccato, Sanda Tcacencu
Part 4 – Retail Crime and the Wider Context.- dChapter 10. Shopping Crime at Place; Aviv-Yafo, David Weisburd, Shai Amram and Maor Shay 
Chapter 11. Crime at the Intersection of Rail and Retail; Andrew Newton
Chapter 12. Crime Against Trading; Marcelo Justus, Vania Ceccato, Gustavo Moreira and Tulio Kahn
Chapter 13. Theft of Medicines from Hospitals as Organised Retail Crime; Ernesto Savona, Marco Dugato and Michele Riccardi
Part 5 – Retail Crime Prevention
Chapter 14. The Challenges to Preventing Losses in Retailing; Martin Gill
Chapter 15. Towards a Theory of Tagging in Retail Environments; Aiden Sidebottom, Nick Tilley
Part 6 – Research and Practice.- Chapter 16. Practical challenges and new research frontiers in retail crime and its prevention; Vania Ceccato and Rachel Armitage.

Vania Ceccato is Professor at the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. 

Rachel Armitage is Professor of Criminology at the University of Huddersfield, UK, as well as Director of the multi-disciplinary Secure Societies Institute.

Includes two free open access chapters (chapters 8 and 9), available on SpringerLink: https://bit.ly/2Itmh3o

Provides a truly comprehensive international perspective on retail crime

Includes a wide set of case studies including from Japan, Australia and South Africa

Appeals to academics as well as practitioners such as architects, urban designers and planners, police and security professionals