Retail Crime

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxii

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2. An Introduction to Retail Crime

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Retail Crime: Aim, Scope, Theoretical Framework and Definitions

      • Vania Ceccato, Rachel Armitage

      Pages 3-31

   3. International Trends in Retail Crime and Prevention Practices

      • Joshua Bamfield

      Pages 33-53

3. Products, Settings and Offenders in Retail

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. Can We Ever Know Which Objects Thieves Most Desire? Lessons from Studying Shoplifted Fast-Moving Consumer Goods

      • Brian T. Smith, Ron V. Clarke

      Pages 57-69

   3. Who Steals from Shops, and Why? A Case Study of Prolific Shop Theft Offenders

      • James Hunter, Laura Garius, Paul Hamilton, Azrini Wahidin

      Pages 71-97

   4. COPS and Robbers: Customer Operated Payment Systems, Self-Service Checkout and the Impact on Retail Crime

      • Emmeline Taylor

      Pages 99-119

4. Retail Environments, Crime and Perceived Safety

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and Retail Crime: Exploring Offender Perspectives on Risk and Protective Factors in the Design and Layout of Retail Environments

      • Rachel Armitage, Chris Joyce, Leanne Monchuk

      Pages 123-154

   3. Shoplifting in Small Stores: A Qualitative Case Study in Perth, Western Australia

      • Paul Cozens

      Pages 155-177

   4. Crime in a Scandinavian Shopping Centre

      • Vania Ceccato, Örjan Falk, Pouriya Parsanezhad, Väino Tarandi

      Pages 179-213Open Access

   5. Perceived Safety in a Shopping Centre: A Swedish Case Study

      • Vania Ceccato, Sanda Tcacencu

      Pages 215-242Open Access

5. Retail Crime and the Wider Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Shopping Crime at Place: The Case of Tel Aviv-Yafo

      • David Weisburd, Shai Amram, Maor Shay

      Pages 245-270

   3. Crime at the Intersection of Rail and Retail

      • Andrew Newton

      Pages 271-295

   4. Crime Against Trading: The Case of Cargo Theft in São Paulo

      • Marcelo Justus, Vania Ceccato, Gustavo C. Moreira, Tulio Kahn

      Pages 297-323

   5. Theft of Medicines from Hospitals as Organised Retail Crime: The Italian Case

      • Ernesto U. Savona, Marco Dugato, Michele Riccardi

      Pages 325-353

6. Retail Crime Prevention

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 355-355

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   2. The Challenges to Preventing Losses in Retailing: Views from Retail Loss Prevention Managers and Directors

      • Martin Gill

      Pages 357-378

This edited collection provides an original and comprehensive take on retail crime and its prevention, by combining international data and multidisciplinary perspectives from criminologists, economists, geographers, police officers and other experts. Drawing on environmental criminology theory and situational crime prevention, it focusses on crime and safety in retail environments but also the interplay between individuals, products and settings such as stores, commercial streets and shopping malls, as well as the wider context of situational conditions of the supply chain in which crime occurs. Chapters offer state-of-the-art research on retail crime from a range of countries such as Australia, Brazil, Israel, Italy, Sweden, the UK and the USA. This methodological and well-researched study is devoted to both academics and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds whose common interest is to prevent retail crime and overall retail loss. 




The chapters 'Crime in a Scandinavian Shopping Centre' and 'Perceived Safety in a Shopping Centre' are published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

• shopping crime
• cargo insurance
• urban planning
• situational crime prevention
• safety
• retail risk
• total retail loss
• self-checkouts
• crime pattern theory
• victimization theory
• visualisation techniques
• fear of crime
• crime hot spots
• space-time trends
• pharmaceutical crime
• security tagging
• shrinkage
• rational choice theory
• routine activity
• crime prevention
• landscape/regional and urban planning

“The book’s wide-ranging chapters would be most useful to a professional working in the retail industry who needs insight or guidance about trends in retail theft and proven methods for identifying and deterring such activity.” (Laura Judge, Security Management, sm.asisonline.org, April 1, 2020)

• Department of Urban Planning and Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  Vania Ceccato

• Applied Criminology Centre, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

  Rachel Armitage

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.

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