NCJ Number
95484
Date Published
1981
Length
47 pages
Annotation
Thirteen papers describe the internal and external threats to retail businesses, physical measures to reduce vulnerability, personnel practices, training programs, and shoplifting prevention.
Abstract
Current techniques in inventory loss prevention, ways of dealing with employee theft, and shoplifting patterns between 1966 and 1977 are discussed. Prevention of the modification, destruction, and disclosure of retail data and ways in which urban retailers can become self-sufficient regarding security are also covered. Prevention of shoplifting, the protection of showcases, and the use of electronic systems for article surveillance are explained. A literature review focuses on the nature, sources, quality, and content of the literature on crimes against business and business crime prevention. A study showing that customers are generally supportive of stores' efforts to reduce theft and the resulting security measures is summarized, together with case examples of retailers who use closed circuit television to prevent shoplifting. Data tables are supplied.