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ECR Europe
This organization is a collaboration of leading European retailers, manufacturers, and academics conducting research in shrinkage reduction issues. Below are several free reports resulting from their past research. Other reports are available for a fee from their web site.

Shrinkage in Europe 2004: A Survey of Stock Loss in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods Sector

Hot Spots in the Supply Chain: Developing an Understanding of What Makes Some Retail Stores Vulnerable to Shrinkage

Measuring Retail Shrinkage: Towards a Shrinkage KPI

Automatic Product Identification & Shrinkage: Scoping the Potential

Loss Prevention Research Council
The Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC) is a small, highly focused organization of retailers and their suppliers whose mission is to rapidly evaluate and develop innovative crime and loss control techniques that can improve the performance of its members. The LPRC provides research grants to the University of Florida and other insitutions, hosts industry workshops, and conducts specific research and development for its members.

Crime and Wal-Mart - Is Wal-Mart Safe?

A Critical Review of "Crime and Wal-Mart"

National Retail Security Survey
This survey is the prinicipal activity of the Security Research Project of the University of Florida headed by Dr. Richard C. Hollinger, Ph.D. Since 1991, the survey has focused on retail loss prevention practices and results. To obtain a copy of the latest survey, email your request to Dr. Hollinger at rhollin@crim.ufl.edu .

Perpetuity Research & Consultancy International
The PRCI is a management and research consultancy based in Leicester (UK) that includes researchers and analysts who conduct crime and loss prevention-related research.
Identity Theft and Fraud: Learning from the USA

How Effective Is CCTV?

University of Florida Loss Prevention Research Team
The LPRT is a multi-disciplinary research group comprised of criminology, retail marketing and consumer behavior, building construction, architecture, interior design, asset protection, and urban planning experts whose goal is to provide crime control recommendations to corporate security decision-makers. The team has extensive experience conducting risk assessments of spaces, places, and processes using site- and asset-specific security audits, failure mode and effect analysis protocols, offender interviews and site visits, surveys, focus groups, CCTV video analyses as well as predictive modeling and field experiments.