Reducing losses due to crime could enhance business profits. However, business does not usually focus on reducing crime losses through management even though it takes crime seriously. This lack of action occurs because business people are generally ignorant of how crime prevention can benefit them and because it is difficult to quantify losses from crime, especially in the crucial area of employee theft. Businesses cannot make a cost-benefit analysis of crime prevention without solid data on losses. Businesses will take action against crime when it becomes demonstrably major or visible or when economics requires action. It will also occur to avoid negative customer relations, to ensure customer safety, or to improve staff morale. A criminologist would call this action crime prevention, but a business leader would simply call it good business. Notes and 37 references (Author abstract modified)