Crime is a major problem for many retailers. Uses data from three national retail crime surveys, analyses the extent … and costs of retail crime in the UK and evaluates trends in customer and employee theft. Finds that most surveys show that … crime costs UK retailers an average of 1.0‐1.5 per cent of their sales, whilst US retailers lose in excess of 25 per cent …

effect of crime on tourism in developing island economies of the South Pacific and Caribbean. Using annual time‐series data …, a simple country‐specific model is estimated. The empirical results confirm the importance of crime levels as a …‐to‐date crime statistics.  …

Theories of crime and delinquency tend to be discipline‐specific and are dominated by psychological, sociological, and … design of effective policies for dealing with the problem of criminal activity. From an economic perspective, crime is … all. This article examines the correlations between economic variables and a broad measure of crime, the property crime …

Economic crime is too varied an activity to be explained by a single theory. Valuable insights are gained from theories … that focus on individual characteristics and on the socio‐economic context of crime, but these theories are not sufficient … explanations of economically motivated crime. They are usefully supplemented by legal responsiveness theory, which focuses on the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of unemployment on various types of crime in Greece … analysis, and an impulse response analysis are used to explore the nexus between unemployment and 14 different types of crime … primarily motivated and driven by economic gain, a policy implication is that crime thwarting policies need to be complemented …

serious social problem of crime. This article examines whether there was any relationship at all between crime, unemployment …