ISSUE
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QUESTIONS
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| 1. What types of crime against businesses are occurring? |
- criminal damage
- commercial burglary
- robbery
- shop theft
- violence against staff
- fraud and forgery
- racially aggravated offences
How does this relate to the number of businesses?
What are the number and rates of incidents involving businesses?
- juvenile nuisance
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vandalism/graffiti
- verbal abuse
- harassment /
intimidation
- racially
motivated incident
- disorder on
licensed premises
- How does this relate to the number of businesses?
- How do crime and incident rates compare with other areas?
- What patterns and trends can be detected?
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2. Where is crime occurring?
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- Are there particular hotspots (neighbourhoods, shopping centres or
industrial estates)?
- Are there particular types of location? (Eg outdoor shopping
parade; industrial estates near housing?)
- Do locations share common physical features? E.g. ease of
access/egress
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3. When?
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- Do crimes and incidents cluster at particular times of the day,
week, month or year?
- Can links be detected with shift or other working patterns?
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4. Who or what is the target?
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- What types of business (sector, size, situation) are most
vulnerable?
- Is there evidence of racial motivation?
- What security features did the business possess?
- What was stolen / what damage was caused?
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5. Are repeats occurring?
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- If so, within what period?
- Is there evidence of crime ‘migrating’ to similar properties
nearby?
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6. What is the impact?
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- What concerns businesses the most?
What is the value of items stolen, damage caused or business lost?
- Is crime / fear of crime affecting business confidence/decisions?
Are customers deterred from coming to the location?
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7. What is known about offenders?
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What is known about offenders;
- Age
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Where they live
- Persistent offending behaviour
- Motivation
- Risk factors associated with offending e.g. drug misuse
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8. How are they doing it?
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- What is known about offenders’ mode of operation? (This may give
clues about the sophistication of offenders involved and inform the
responses put in place.)
- How are goods disposed of?
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| 9. Contextual Information and information on risk factors
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Social, environmental and economic factors associated with business
and retail crime.
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