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Crime prevention series

Introduction {to Preventing retail crime}

Published in:
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

The seriousness of the problem of retail crime is evident from the level of stock shrinkage, employee theft, customer theft, theft by professionals, and robbery and violence occurring in Australia's businesses. This chapter discusses each in turn, and possible solutions to the problem.