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Crime Reduction Toolkits

Business and Retail Crime
Crime - Let's bring it down
  
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Impact

A significant proportion of businesses are affected by crime.

  • 63% of manufacturers and nearly 80% of retailers covered by the Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS) had experienced one or more crimes in 1993.

  • The proportion of businesses identified in the Scottish Business Crime Survey as experiencing crime in 1998 was slightly lower, at 58%.

Not surprisingly, the crime most commonly experienced in the retail sector is customer theft.

  • 47% of retailers in the CVS had experienced customer theft at least once, and many more than once, rising to 54% when thefts by employees and other thefts were included.

  • Other crimes commonly experienced by retailers were burglary (24%), thefts from vehicles (23%) and criminal damage (22%).

Manufacturing premises also suffer more property crime than violent crime.

  • 25% of vehicle owning premises in the CVS had experienced vehicle theft at least once.

  • Other crimes commonly experienced by manufacturers were burglary (24%), attempted burglary (18%) and vandalism (16%).

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