Crime and Security Research
As the Christmas shopping season descends, retailers may be wondering how best to protect their busy, stock laden stores against the threat of shoplifters. Problems include: • Christmas decorations and displays may have an impact on visibility, and surveillance measures • Large volumes of shoppers may mask the activities of thieves • Shop staff that are more busy than usual […]
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The latest findings from the Security Research Initiative (SRI) revealed that the most highly valued characteristic of a security supplier is a strong focus on customer needs. While it is also important to have innovative and adaptive senior management more emphasis should be placed on achieving excellent management on the frontline. 489 corporate security personnel and security suppliers from around […]
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Offenders involved in human trafficking are routinely exploiting social media and the internet to target, entrap and control their victims, warns Europol director Rob Wainwright. The head of the European policing agency explained that adverts on social media sites such as Facebook that promised childcare or cleaning jobs were being used by organised crime groups to lure in vulnerable young […]
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In line with the Trading Standard’s ‘Good neighbours stop rogue traders’ campaign for National Consumer’s Week (3-7th November), this month’s article will be looking at the nature and impacts of doorstep crime. Doorstep crime involves offenders cold-calling at the homes of consumers, commonly elderly or vulnerable individuals, and offering to carry out property repairs such as roofing, tarmacking or gardening […]
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A new breakthrough in microparticle technology may help to prevent the forging of currency and the sale of counterfeit, sub-standard and unsafe goods to unwary customers. Scientists and engineers at MIT have developed a new microscopic barcode that can be embedded into currency, credit cards and industrial packaging. Although these tiny barcodes are invisible to the naked eye, they reveal […]
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The approach of October heralds the return of Stoptober – a 28 day challenge providing support to those who would like to stop smoking: Visit the website for more information Perpetuity has undertaken a number of projects evaluating initiatives to prevent both the uptake of smoking amongst young people and exposure to second hand smoke. We have found that […]
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What are the most important characteristics of an excellent corporate security department? What makes an excellent security supplier? Our latest Security Research Initiative report explores the characteristics needed to achieve outstanding performance as rated by both corporate security personnel and security suppliers. Views were also garnered on whether in practice excellence in security is actually being achieved. While overall the […]
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Extensively updated, expanded and reorganised, this new edition of The Handbook of Security provides the most comprehensive analysis of scholarly security debates and issues to date. Informed by a range of disciplines, including environmental science, criminology, politics and economics, it brings together contributions from some of the world’s leading scholars to explore the most important issues impacting our understanding of […]
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At the beginning of July, Martin gave a presentation at the anti-corruption academy in Vienna. He spoke about the ways in which dishonesty is manifested in organisations and how insights from work with offenders can inform prevention strategies. He also chaired a discussion on corruption in sport which focused on a range of issues, including the enormous influence of the […]
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Penetration tests (sometimes referred to as mystery shoplifting) provide an opportunity to test out the effectiveness of security and obtain very specific and first hand feedback about why something worked or did not work. Tests are a way of assessing security from the viewpoint of the thief. Perhaps the most important advantage of tests is that they facilitate very specific […]
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