Playing the Long Game: A Retailer’s Reaction to Shoplifting Today Impacts Crime for Decades...
Shoplifting is often cited as the most frequently committed crime in societies around the world. (Content sponsored by the Crime Accountability Partnership Program.)
Stop Theft by Shoplifting: Two Ways to Influence Potential Offenders
The following describes a cornerstone theory of judgment and decision making that has tremendously important implications in loss prevention. The elaboration likelihood model (ELM)...
Fight ORC Methods with a Solid Strategy
How many retailers think or know they have an organized retail crime (ORC) problem? Even of those that say they do, how many can...
EyeOnLP: Saving Resources, Changing Lives
Petty shoplifters have an impact—not only on retailers, but on the community as a whole. These cases cause a drain on police resources and backlogs on court dockets.
Five US Loss Prevention Experts Present Best Practices at Japanese International Retail Theft Prevention...
A first-of-its-kind international retail theft prevention conference was held March 9–10 at Tokyo Big Sight, Japan’s largest convention and exhibition center. The event featured...
Technology-Based Strategy Fuels Collaborative Program with Law Enforcement to Prosecute Retail Theft and Reduce...
How can retailers minimize their exposure to store theft from career criminals, both effectively partnering with law enforcement and prosecutors and ensuring convicted offenders...
Shoplifting Laws and Presumption of Intent
Intentional torts such as theft require a finding of intent. However, at times, a finding of intent can be difficult to prove. Generally, it...
Civil Recovery Requests Arising from Theft Do Not Constitute Debt Collection
When a civil recovery request is made, many retail theft offenders assume that the request qualifies as an attempt to collect a debt and...
Security in Shopping Malls: 7 Tips for Law Enforcement
While some of the tools of organized retail crime and methods of operation continue to evolve with the changes in technology and dynamics of...
LP Insider’s Top Five Shoplifting and ORC Articles of 2016
Does Concealment = Shoplifting?
In most states, intent is the driving factor in determining whether to charge a shoplifter.
It is a common misbelief among shoplifters...
