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Crime prevention series
Preventing retail crime in shopping centres and malls
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Preventing retail crime
Susan Geason and Paul R Wilson
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1992
ISBN 0 642 17047 9 ; ISSN 1031-5330
(Crime prevention series)
Abstract
Shopping centres have become focal points for theft of and from vehicles; shoplifting; passing bad cheques; credit card fraud; purse snatching; and robbery. This chapter traces the types of malls and their development; factors affecting crime in malls (including location and design); reduction or prevention strategies (including CPTED and increased surveillance); and the implications for security of the debate over whether shopping malls are public or private spaces.