Analysis and Breakdown of Organized Retail Crime: Trends, Methods and Combating It
Faculty Mentor Name
Allan Saquella
Format Preference
Poster
Abstract
Organized Retail Crime (ORC) has been on the rise and has become an increasing concern for retailers as individual incidents increase in value and even violence with Organized Retail Criminals having more violent confrontations with retail employees. This research aims to understand and analyze ORC and those who commit it so targeted strategies can be developed and implemented to stop its rise. This research differs from typical retail strategies and research on ORC by focusing on the human aspect of why people commit ORC and what methods they employ. By understanding and looking at the problem from this human perspective there may be ways to decrease its prevalence without more locks, cameras, or guards. Through background research and interviews there is an increasing focus on fighting ORC by either better partnership with law enforcement and policy makers in order to punish Organized Retail Criminals or stricter controls on retail goods to prevent the merchandise from leaving the store in the first place. This research aims to prevent Organized Retail Crime in the first place, reducing the need for the other two strategies by tackling ORC in a new more preventative way. The objective of this project is to develop strategies for discouraging ORC without resorting to increased technological security measures. This research involves Interviewing people associated with ORC who both commit and combat it as well as looking at ORC data to find patterns or correlations between things like locations, dates, and times.
Analysis and Breakdown of Organized Retail Crime: Trends, Methods and Combating It
Organized Retail Crime (ORC) has been on the rise and has become an increasing concern for retailers as individual incidents increase in value and even violence with Organized Retail Criminals having more violent confrontations with retail employees. This research aims to understand and analyze ORC and those who commit it so targeted strategies can be developed and implemented to stop its rise. This research differs from typical retail strategies and research on ORC by focusing on the human aspect of why people commit ORC and what methods they employ. By understanding and looking at the problem from this human perspective there may be ways to decrease its prevalence without more locks, cameras, or guards. Through background research and interviews there is an increasing focus on fighting ORC by either better partnership with law enforcement and policy makers in order to punish Organized Retail Criminals or stricter controls on retail goods to prevent the merchandise from leaving the store in the first place. This research aims to prevent Organized Retail Crime in the first place, reducing the need for the other two strategies by tackling ORC in a new more preventative way. The objective of this project is to develop strategies for discouraging ORC without resorting to increased technological security measures. This research involves Interviewing people associated with ORC who both commit and combat it as well as looking at ORC data to find patterns or correlations between things like locations, dates, and times.