Under-Reporting Of Crime Against Small Businesses

Attitudes Toward Police And Reporting Practices

Bibliographic Data

ID12364387
AuthorsNatalie Taylor (0000-0002-0280-0883, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume13
Issue1
Pages79-89
Publication date2002-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicing & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1043-9463 • E-ISSN: 1477-2728
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1043946032000050562
OpenAlexW2065629666
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited5

Crime surveys of businesses have revealed that while crimes such as burglary and robbery tend to be reported to police, other crimes such as employee theft, credit card fraud and customer theft are likely to go unreported to police. Understanding why some crimes are reported and others are not is essential to encouraging business proprietors to report crime, which in turn is essential for improving the accuracy of police crime data. Data from a survey conducted with Australian small businesses found that while almost all burglaries and robberies were reported to police, incidents of employee theft, customer theft and cheque/credit card fraud were likely to go unreported. One of the most common reasons reflected a pessimistic belief that reporting crime was pointless and achieved nothing. It is argued that while reasons for non-reporting vary, there is much the police can do to increase the willingness of business owners to report crime and these avenues should be pursued

Business · Cheque · Computer security · Credit card · Credit card fraud · Criminology · Financial fraud · Nothing · Payment · Pessimism · Political science · Public relations · Under-reporting · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Accounting · Finance

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