Tag: deterrence
Leveraging Situational Crime Prevention to Combat Retail Crime and Loss
Dr. Read Hayes provides multiple deterrence strategies and developments to potentially decrease retail robberies.
To Detain or Not to Detain
Apprehension may or may not generate general and specific deterrence with some people. Detention can shame the offender or at least convince them to not try that crime again. Non-detention risks sending the message to those thieves and others aware of the policy that the store will not physically resist ongoing theft efforts. What does a retailer do?