Retail Security and Loss Prevention: Second Edition

RETAIL SECURITY AND LOSS PREVENTION is an invaluable reference for both retail and security professionals. Using step-by-step plans, this book helps the reader design and implement cost-effective loss control programs.

Retail Security and Loss Prevention is an invaluable and comprehensive publication that provides cutting-edge asset protection processes. Based on twenty-five years of systematic research and field experience, it is designed to provide loss prevention managers, store managers, and retail and security students with a powerful problem-solving resource. It describes the most common retail crime and loss problems along with a step-by-step process for diagnosing and treating these problems. Included are several loss prevention checklists as well as sample forms.

READ HAYES has been a Security Researcher and Consultant since 1984. He has over 28 years' hands-on crime and loss control experience with numerous organizations worldwide, including Target, Home Depot, Bloomingdales, Coles Meyer, Disney, Proctor and Gamble and Wal-mart. A co-ordinator of the Loss Prevention Research Team at the University of Florida and Director of the retailer-supplier coalition Loss Prevention Research Council, his current research focuses on offender decision-making, total supply chain protection, asset and key product protection and premises violence, security and safeness. He is the author of over 60 articles and three books including Retail Security and Loss Prevention.