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Retailers as Victims of Crime - Proceedings, Training Project Number 59/1

NCJ Number
92065
Editor(s)
C R Bevan
Date Published
1983
Length
149 pages
Annotation
These papers from an Australian seminar examine the extent of and countermeasures for all forms of criminal victimization of retail businesses, including shoplifting, employee theft, robbery and burglary, credit card fraud, and loss occasioned by delivery and refunding rackets.
Abstract
The opening paper presents results from victim surveys of Victoria's retailers (Australia), including information on offenders, victim dissatisfaction with the courts, retailers' reluctance to prosecute, and prevention measures. Another essay on public education in retail security notes that reasonable efforts have been undertaken throughout Australia to use all avenues of the media to educate the public about the hidden cost of shoplifting, with retail industry associations, retailers themselves, and schools assuming the leadership. An examination of some of the circumstances contributing to the increase in shoplifting in Australia is presented in a paper, along with discussions on the obtaining of evidence to sustain a shoplifting charge and the courts' handling of shoplifting cases. Other papers cover trends in retail security overseas, methods of shoplifting investigation and prevention, extortion against retailers, credit card fraud, employee theft, the handling of money in retail businesses, and training security staff. One essay considers security in warehouses.