Crime and criminal justice statistics
Victims of crime - Retail and small businesses
Percentage of businesses within each retail sector experiencing any crime
Source: Australian Institute of Criminology 2002. Almost half of all retailers report experiencing crime. Crime facts info no. 23, 30 April. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/cfi/cfi023.html
Further information
- Full report: Patterns of victimisation among small retail businesses
- See also statistics for Robbery; Property crime; Fraud; Cybercrime
Charts/fact sheets
- Losses from online credit card fraud against small business
- Bank robbery in Australia
- Implementing Business Watch
- Reporting of crime against small business
- Costs of crime high for small retail businesses
- Percentage of all recorded robberies which occur at service stations, pharmacies, banks and residential locations between 1993 and 2000
Other publications and data sources
Australia
- Crimes against business : a review of victimisation, predictors and prevention
Australian Institute of Criminology, 2004 - Small business survey program : financial management, insolvency and fraud (PDF 432kB)
Judy Hartcher. CPA Australia, 2003 - Financial and psychological costs of crime for small retail businesses
Natalie Taylor and Pat Mayhew, 2002 - Patterns of victimisation among small retail businesses
Natalie Taylor and Pat Mayhew, 2002 - Reporting of crime against small retail businesses
Natalie Taylor, 2002 - Robberies against service stations and pharmacies : recent trends
Natalie Taylor, 2002 - Crime against small retail businesses in Australia : a preliminary analysis
Santina Perrone, 2000 - Small business crime survey : survey information
Attorney-General's Department, 1999 - Invisible eyes : report on video surveillance in the workplace : theft
Privacy Committee of New South Wales, 1995 - First Australian national survey of crimes against business
John Walker, 1994
United Kingdom
- Crime against retail and manufacturing premises : findings from the 2002 Commercial Victimisation Survey (PDF 632kB)
Jan Shury, Mark Speed, David Vivian, Alistair Kuechel, Sian Nicholas. Home Office, 2005 - Hi-tech crime - the impact on UK businesses 2005 (PDF 3.35MB)
National Hi-Tech Crime Unit - Crime against retail and manufacturing premises : findings from the 2002 Commercial Victimisation Survey (PDF 87kB)
Joanna Taylor. Home Office, 2004 - Setting business free from crime : Summary | Full report (PDF 1.65MB)
British Chamber of Commerce. Crime against business survey, 2004 - Retail crime overseas
Centre for Retail Research, 2003 - 13th annual retail crime survey 2006 : key facts (PDF 114kB)
British Retail Consortium, 2006 - Crime against business survey 2001
British Chamber of Commerce, 2001 - Counting the cost : crime against business in Scotland : the motor/fuel and retail sub-sectors
John Burrows and Dave Ingram. Scottish Executive, 2000 - Counting the cost : crime against business in Scotland : the public transport/taxis sub-sectors
John Burrows and Dave Ingram. Scottish Executive, 2000 - Counting the cost : crime against business in Scotland : the restaurants/takeaways and pubs/clubs sub-sectors
John Burrows and Dave Ingram. Scottish Executive, 2000 - Business and retail crime reduction toolkit : facts and figures
Crime Reduction - UK retail crime statistics
Centre for Retail Research
United States
- Cybercrime against businesses : pilot test results, 2001 computer security survey
Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2004 - Small business, big burdens : the nature and incidence of crime within and against small business and its customers and employees, their causes, their effects and their prevention (PDF 12kB)
Bonnie Fisher. US Small Business Administration, 1997
Related links
- Topic: Retail and small business crime
- Statistics: Robbery; Property crime; Fraud; Cybercrime