NCJ Number
92328
Date Published
1983
Length
500 pages
Annotation
Twenty-one chapters focus on loss prevention problems and on security and management countermeasures that protect against crime, fires, accidents, and employee dishonesty.
Abstract
Following an introduction to loss prevention, the text discusses results-oriented management, with attention to practical loss prevention management, planning and budgeting for loss prevention, internal and external relations, applicant screening, and employee socialization. Reducing the problem of loss is explored in discussions of internal and external threats and countermeasures, purchasing decisions for security services and devices, and investigations. Accounting, accountability, and auditing are viewed as keys to survival, while preventive strategies to avoid fires and other disasters, safety strategies, and risk management and insurance are discussed. The final section examines specialized problems in loss prevention, such as practical retail loss prevention; shoplifting; loss prevention at computer, nuclear, defense, and transportation facilities; and loss prevention at educational, health care, and financial institutions. Protection of sensitive information, executive protection, substance abuse, and ripoffs are considered in one chapter, and legal concerns in loss prevention are reviewed. A concluding chapter looks at the future of loss prevention. Twelve fictional accounts of actual cases dealing with security-related legal problems appear throughout the text; the reader is asked for a verdict based on the court's ruling. Tables, figures, chapter notes, case problems, an index, and 27 references are supplied.