Titlebook: Crime and Security; Managing the Risk to Adrian Beck,Andrew Willis Book 2006 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Criminal Threats to Safe Shopping,stics are daunting. In 1993, for example, there were 5.5 million notifiable offences recorded in England and Wales — a rise of 70 per cent over a 10-year period (Home Office, 1994a and 1994b). Alongside these official statistics of recorded crime there are an increasing number of victimisation surve

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,Crime and Nuisance: The Customers’ Perspective, at all by crime whilst shopping — and, if so, to what extent they were worried. Secondly, shoppers were asked to rate the seriousness of 12 specific types of crime and nuisance which could give them cause for concern. Thirdly, the interviews explored whether or not shoppers avoided certain places i

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,Crime and Nuisance: The Managers’ Perspective,ng-centre managers. It is arguable that the managers had a rather more informed perspective on crime and nuisance than had ordinary members of the public, partly because they had formal obligations in the fields of safety and security. The questionnaires made it clear that respondents were to answer

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Existing Security Measures: An Audit, the point of view of shoppers and managers), the next step is to conduct a ‘security audit’ of existing measures and practices. This provides a basis for thinking creatively about improvements in security strategies. Making comparisons of security cover for shoppers and managers in two retail envir

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Regulating the Private Security Industry,5a and 1995b) Home Affairs Committee to establish an inquiry into the regulation of the private security industry. This question merits an extended discussion because of its implications for risk and security management in the retail sector generally, as well as because it raises specific points abo

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Management Priorities and Security,own-centre and shopping-centre managers. The assumption was that managers were able to describe the ways in which security formed part of their job descriptions and how this was reflected in their day-to-day activities, including the prominence given to specific measures to preserve and protect the

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The Use of Closed Circuit Television, the major theme which emerged was the contrast between public policing in town centres and private security in shopping centres — with CCTV a major factor in both town-centre and shopping-centre security, but rather at the margin of the ‘public policing’ and ‘private security’ debate. The growing n