Chpt. 7 Flashcards
The Crime Prevention Service for Business at Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice defines shrinkage as the difference between the inventory a business should have and what the…?
Business actually does have.
Shrinkage results in numerous losses, including what?
Revenue shortfall.
According to the Food Marketing Institute, an industry group that maintains a list of the fifty most stolen items from supermarkets, what is one of the top-ten most stolen items from supermarkets?
Similac.
According to the FBI, Organized Retail Crime gangs target what?
High-value consumer goods.
Organized Retail Crimes legislation would assist with ease of prosecution for crimes that…?
Occur across jurisdictional lines.
LERPnet is an information sharing protocol developed with collaboration between industry associations, law enforcement and the what?
Retail community.
OCR is causing a major problem for retailer’s bottom line and costs the average retailer about how much yearly?
$230,000.
Employee theft cannot be eliminated, but it can be controlled by…?
Good management techniques.
CPTED assumes that crime is related to daily routines and activities in the area. CPTED involves ____ and designing space inside and outside of buildings.
Using space.
According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, CRPD involves the integration of protective features into products in order to reduce their potential to become targets of?
Criminal activity.
Audits and inventories are extremely important in?
Loss prevention efforts.
What individuals are usually in the middle or upper management level in the corporate business structure?
Loss prevention or security directors.
Many loss prevention executives report that in addition to their loss prevention and security duties, they are assigned a broad scope of responsibility for dealing with…?
Non crime issues.
There are several programs to assist personnel in interviewing techniques including…?
Wicklander-Zulawski Associated, Inc.
What activity may arise out of words, conduct, gestures, or threats?
Detention.
Detention must be based on what significant facts that would cause a reasonable person to believe that an offense has been committed?
Probable cause.
The _____ of the subject must be reasonable considering the factors of physical surroundings, physical
contact, and the type and level of any threats.
Reasonableness.
Retailers must have policies that are applied evenhandedly without regard to the subject’s race or other personal factors. This is called what?
Consistency.
Civil recovery or civil demand programs began when?
1980s.
Integrity shoppers or mystery shoppers are usually employed by…?
Shopping services.
Peer reporting is one of the most effective techniques to do what?
Detect theft.
Most of the time, the anti-theft technologies deployed in retail are?
Visible.
The standard means of transmitting a CCTV image is through?
A coaxial cable.
If everyone knows that there is a camera, they may feel safe in or around the store, thus preventing potential criminals from attacking. What is this called?
Fear reduction.
