Retail Crime

Includes two free open access chapters (chapters 8 and 9), available on SpringerLink: https://bit.ly/2Itmh3o Provides a truly comprehensive international perspective on retail crime Includes a wide set of case studies including from Japan, Australia and South Africa Appeals to academics as well as practitioners such as architects, urban designers and planners, police and security professionals

Autorentext
Vania Ceccato is Professor at the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.
Rachel Armitage is Professor of Criminology at the University of Huddersfield, UK, as well as Director of the multi-disciplinary Secure Societies Institute.

Inhalt
Part 1 An Introduction to Retail Crime.- Chapter 1. Retail crime; Vania Ceccato and Rachel Armitage.- Chapter 2. International Trends in Retail Crime and Prevention Practices; Joshua Bamfield.- Part 2 Products, Settings and Offenders in Retail.- Chapter 3. Can We Ever Know Which Objects Thieves Most Desire?; Brian Smith, Ron Clarke.- Chapter 4. Who Steals from Shops, and Why?; James Hunter, Laura Garius, Paul Hamilton and Azrini Wahidin.- Chapter 5. COPS and Robbers; Emmeline Taylor.- Part 3 Retail Environments, Crime and Perceived Safety.- Chapter 6. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and Retail Crime; Rachel Armitage, Chris Joyce and Leanne Monchuk.- Chapter 7. Shoplifting in Small Stores; Paul Cozens.- Chapter 8. Crime in a Scandinavian Shopping Centre; Vania Ceccato, Örjan Falk, Pouriya Parsanezhad and Väino Tarandi.- Chapter 9. Perceived Safety in a Shopping Centre; Vania Ceccato, Sanda Tcacencu.- Part 4 Retail Crime and the Wider Context.- Chapter 10. Shopping Crime at Place; Aviv-Yafo, David Weisburd, Shai Amram and Maor Shay.- Chapter 11. Crime at the Intersection of Rail and Retail; Andrew Newton.- Chapter 12. Crime Against Trading; Marcelo Justus, Vania Ceccato, Gustavo Moreira and Tulio Kahn.- Chapter 13. Theft of Medicines from Hospitals as Organised Retail Crime; Ernesto Savona, Marco Dugato and Michele Riccardi.- Part 5 Retail Crime Prevention.- Chapter 14. The Challenges to Preventing Losses in Retailing; Martin Gill.- Chapter 15. Towards a Theory of Tagging in Retail Environments; Aiden Sidebottom, Nick Tilley.- Part 6 Research and Practice.- Chapter 16. Practical challenges and new research frontiers in retail crime and its prevention; Vania Ceccato and Rachel Armitage.