NCJ Number
179163
Editor(s)
Martin Gill
Date Published
1998
Length
216 pages
Annotation
This volume compiles articles on business crime costs, business security and crime prevention, and business crime risk management.
Abstract
The volume focuses on identifying who is at risk from business crime and on the need to develop effective strategies to reduce the risk of victimization and to prevent business crime. This means making workplace situations less conducive to crime by increasing the likelihood offenders will be identified and apprehended. Recognizing business crime can result in lost jobs and services and can mean higher prices for consumers, various techniques of situational crime prevention are described. Articles in the volume specifically discuss the problems of obtaining good data on which effective policies can be devised to present risks to offenders, examine business crime patterns and the impact of crime in different businesses, evaluate issues in some of the most serious offenses encountered by businesses, and consider a range of policing and regulation issues. Articles also include case studies of business crime prevention and community safety and look at the extent and nature of homicide and non-fatal workplace violence, rural crime prevention, consumer perceptions of shoplifting behavior, employee collusion and theft, robbery, fraud, drug dealing, product counterfeiting, and business security practices. Notes, tables, and figures