Business and Crime Prevention

In papers delivered at a conference co-sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Justice and Rutgers University, scholars and business analysts explore how criminological knowledge can help prevent crimes by and against businesses. Topics include: the impact of crime on business; preventing retail thefts; prevention and the auto industry; making crime prevention pay; public-private partnerships; crime prevention and the insurance industry; the private security industry; real estate development and crime prevention; and others. The contributing authors are: Cressida Bridgeman, John Burrows, Dennis Challinger, Ronald V. Clarke, John E. Eck, Robert DiLonardo, Marcus Felson, Kim Hazelbaker, Richard C. Hollinger, Roger A. Litton, Robert D. McCrie, Richard B. Peiser, Clifford Shearing and Jan J.M. van Dijk.