Crime and Nuisance in Context

Adrian Beck and Andrew Willis

Chapter 1 in Crime and Security: Managing the Risk to Safe Shopping, 2006, pp 1-34 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This book seeks to explore a neglected aspect of criminal victimisation — the various threats to safe shopping — and in so doing to open a new dimension in criminological study. Particular attention is given to a comparison between the crime and nuisance threats in two retail environments — the traditional town centre (the high street) and the nearby shopping centre or shopping mall. The crime prevention and risk management implications of the findings are discussed throughout, with a particular focus on the use and effectiveness of security measures — such as conventional policing, private security guards, closed circuit television (CCTV) and security shutters, as well as town-centre and shopping-centre man-agers’ views about crime prevention priorities. Whenever possible, the discussion and analysis moves beyond the bounds of town centres and shopping centres to draw out the wider implications for ‘safe shopping’. Some readers may care to start by turning to the concluding chapter. This can be read either as an overview of the findings and their significance or as a preview which might direct attention to chapters of special interest. The reader who proceeds chapter by chapter will find that the book is structured around a number of interrelated themes.

Keywords: Crime Prevention; Crime Control; Shopping Centre; Shopping Mall; Private Security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230377868_1

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