 Criminal Threats to Safe ShoppingAdrian Beck and Andrew Willis Chapter 2 in Crime and Security: Managing the Risk to Safe Shopping, 2006, pp 35-58 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Crime, its consequences and how to handle the problem of lawlessness are rarely far from the top of the political agenda — not least because the statistics 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 surveys where members of households are asked about their experience of crime, whether or not reported to the police. The findings suggest that the ‘real’ amount of crime is up to four times greater than is recorded in the police figures — mostly because a significant proportion remains unreported. The various sweeps of the British Crime Survey (BCS) by the Home Office, which look only at household and personal victimisation, point to a recorded figure of around three million crimes per year and a total figure of 11.5 million offences (Mayhew et al, 1993 and 1994). Keywords: City Centre; Shopping Centre; Town Centre; Shopping Behaviour; Annual Turnover (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37786-8_2 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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