Shopping and Crime

Shopping and Crime draws on criminology, behavioural economics and marketing to help understand retail crime as a cultural phenomenon. Shopping is now the largest consumer leisure activity, and this has led to an exponential rise in the levels of retail crime.

In this topical volume Professor Bamfield analyses important new datasets on employee theft and shoplifting to show the nature of the problem, its origins and possible solutions. Crime prevention is explored as a management issue, using criminomics, a new concept based on commercial realities rather than maximising arrests. This emphasises communications and persuasion within organisations, supported by a web of collaborative projects between retailers, police and other crime agencies.

Joshua A. N. Bamfield has studied retail consumer and crime trends in Europe and North America for 30 years and has acted as consultant to major retail corporations. He taught management, strategy and industrial economics at Oxford Brookes University, UK, before becoming Head of Business at Northampton University, UK. He is Director of the Centre for Retail Research, Nottingham, UK, and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford and Industrial Economics at Nottingham.