Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Crime Prevention and Security Management (CPSM)
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About this book
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.
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.
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Keywords
- shopping crime
- cargo insurance
- urban planning
- situational crime prevention
- safety
- retail risk
- total retail loss
- self-checkouts
- crime pattern theory
- victimization theory
- visualisation techniques
- fear of crime
- crime hot spots
- space-time trends
- pharmaceutical crime
- security tagging
- shrinkage
- rational choice theory
- routine activity
- crime prevention
- landscape/regional and urban planning
Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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An Introduction to Retail Crime
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Products, Settings and Offenders in Retail
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Retail Environments, Crime and Perceived Safety
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Retail Crime Prevention
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Reviews
“The book’s wide-ranging chapters would be most useful to a professional working in the retail industry who needs insight or guidance about trends in retail theft and proven methods for identifying and deterring such activity.” (Laura Judge, Security Management, sm.asisonline.org, April 1, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Rachel Armitage is Professor of Criminology at the University of Huddersfield, UK, as well as Director of the multi-disciplinary Secure Societies Institute.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Retail Crime
Book Subtitle: International Evidence and Prevention
Editors: Vania Ceccato, Rachel Armitage
Series Title: Crime Prevention and Security Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73065-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73064-6Published: 29 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10308-8Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73065-3Published: 18 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-3513
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 435
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour
Topics: Organized Crime, Crime Prevention, Crime and Society, Urban Studies/Sociology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning