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Retail Crime: Aim, Scope, Theoretical Framework and Definitions

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Retail Crime

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This chapter provides an introduction to the theme retail crime, the book scope, theoretical framework and key definitions used to structure this edited volume and support the reading of the chapters. Retail crime encompasses any criminal act against a store, a company or a conglomerate of companies, their properties as well as their employees and customers. The book also explores how the use of technology reduces crime but may also create new crime opportunities, some linked to organised criminal organisations far away from where crime occurs. This chapter also illustrates how this edited volume contributes to the current knowledge base by characterising the dynamics of retail crime from a multidisciplinary and international perspective with examples from Australia, Brazil, England, Israel, Italy, the UK and the US.

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

    Vania Ceccato

  2. Applied Criminology Centre, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK

    Rachel Armitage

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    Vania Ceccato

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    Rachel Armitage

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Ceccato, V., Armitage, R. (2018). Retail Crime: Aim, Scope, Theoretical Framework and Definitions. In: Ceccato, V., Armitage, R. (eds) Retail Crime. Crime Prevention and Security Management. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73065-3_1

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