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Retail Crime

International Evidence and Prevention

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Editors:
  1. Vania Ceccato

    1. Department of Urban Planning and Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

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  2. Rachel Armitage

    1. Applied Criminology Centre, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

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  • 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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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. An Introduction to Retail Crime

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Retail Crime: Aim, Scope, Theoretical Framework and Definitions

      • Vania Ceccato, Rachel Armitage
      Pages 3-31

    3. International Trends in Retail Crime and Prevention Practices

      • Joshua Bamfield
      Pages 33-53

  3. Products, Settings and Offenders in Retail

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Can We Ever Know Which Objects Thieves Most Desire? Lessons from Studying Shoplifted Fast-Moving Consumer Goods

      • Brian T. Smith, Ron V. Clarke
      Pages 57-69

    3. Who Steals from Shops, and Why? A Case Study of Prolific Shop Theft Offenders

      • James Hunter, Laura Garius, Paul Hamilton, Azrini Wahidin
      Pages 71-97

    4. COPS and Robbers: Customer Operated Payment Systems, Self-Service Checkout and the Impact on Retail Crime

      • Emmeline Taylor
      Pages 99-119

  4. Retail Environments, Crime and Perceived Safety

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and Retail Crime: Exploring Offender Perspectives on Risk and Protective Factors in the Design and Layout of Retail Environments

      • Rachel Armitage, Chris Joyce, Leanne Monchuk
      Pages 123-154

    3. Shoplifting in Small Stores: A Qualitative Case Study in Perth, Western Australia

      • Paul Cozens
      Pages 155-177

    4. Crime in a Scandinavian Shopping Centre

      • Vania Ceccato, Örjan Falk, Pouriya Parsanezhad, Väino Tarandi
      Pages 179-213Open Access

    5. Perceived Safety in a Shopping Centre: A Swedish Case Study

      • Vania Ceccato, Sanda Tcacencu
      Pages 215-242Open Access

  5. Retail Crime and the Wider Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. Shopping Crime at Place: The Case of Tel Aviv-Yafo

      • David Weisburd, Shai Amram, Maor Shay
      Pages 245-270

    3. Crime at the Intersection of Rail and Retail

      • Andrew Newton
      Pages 271-295

    4. Crime Against Trading: The Case of Cargo Theft in São Paulo

      • Marcelo Justus, Vania Ceccato, Gustavo C. Moreira, Tulio Kahn
      Pages 297-323

    5. Theft of Medicines from Hospitals as Organised Retail Crime: The Italian Case

      • Ernesto U. Savona, Marco Dugato, Michele Riccardi
      Pages 325-353
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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.











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

  • Department of Urban Planning and Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Vania Ceccato

  • Applied Criminology Centre, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

    Rachel Armitage

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.





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