Shopping and Crime

Shopping and Crime
ISBN-10
0230521606
ISBN-13
9780230521605
Category
Social Science
Pages
325
Language
English
Published
2012-03-13
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Author
Joshua Bamfield

Description

Shopping and Crimedraws on criminology, behavioural economics and marketing to help understand retail crime as a cultural phenomenon. Shopping is now the largest consumer leisure activity, and this has led to an exponential rise in the levels of retail crime. In this topical volume Professor Bamfield analyses important new datasets on employee theft and shoplifting to show the nature of the problem, its origins and possible solutions. Crime prevention is explored as a management issue, using criminomics, a new concept based on commercial realities rather than maximizing arrests. This emphasises communications and persuasion within organisations, supported by a web of collaborative projects between retailers, police and other crime agencies.

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