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This is the longer, more technical version of a Criminology Research Grants study that was released by the AIC as a Trends & Issues report on September 19 2012.

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by a grant from the Criminology Research Grants, grant number CRG 38/10–11.

The Criminology Research Grants scheme is managed by the Criminology Research Advisory Council. The views expressed in this report are the responsibility of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Council.

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A report recently released from the Australian Institute of Criminology shows that many crimes which are committed against small retail businesses go unreported to police. Results from a survey completed by 3,834 business proprietors revealed that reporting practices differed markedly, depending on both the type of crime and whether it was attempted or completed. While almost all burglaries and robberies were reported to police, very few incidents of shoplifting, employee theft and cheque/credit card fraud were reported.

Managed by the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Australian component of the 2004 International Crime Victimisation Survey (ICVS) randomly surveyed 6,000 people aged 16 or older. To assess the experience of crime among migrants, an extra 1001 individuals born, or whose parents were born, in Vietnam or the Middle East were surveyed. The chart below compares the five-year rates of victimisation for the main sample and the Middle Eastern/Vietnamese sample.

9-12 November 1982

Contents

• Foreword
• Retailers as victims of crime
  Mr W. Clifford
• Reflections on retailers and crime
  Mr D. Challinger
• Trends in retail security overseas
  Mr R.M. Lawrence
• Public education in retail security in Australia
  Mr K.E. MacDonald
• Retailers as victims of crime
  Mr B.R. Brown
• Methods of investigation and prevention of retail crime
  Sergeant I. Juergens
• Methods of investigation and prevention of retail crime - paper 2
  Detective John Carroll

Canberra, 14-18 October 1974

Contents

Papers of the seminar

• Defensible space in Australian urban areas
  Harold G. Weir
• Crime and the urban community: sickness or symbiosis?
  Peter Scott
• Probation and parole in the community
  B.J. Brinley
• Community relations and law enforcement - a new initiative
  A.J. Grassby
• Report on the seminar
  G.I.A.D. Draper

Appendix I

• Seminar specialists

Appendix II

• List of participants

Appendix III