Date of Award

2017

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Jakee, Keith

Abstract

Loss prevention personnel in retail firms face difficult and expensive decisions regarding the technologies they should implement to reduce product loss and redistributive crime. Using Office Depot as a case study, this paper evaluates redistributive crime, which is the tendency for theft of unprotected products to increase when surveillance systems are placed on protected ones. I also analyze the security measures used to combat these crimes, focusing mainly on the Electronic Article Surveillance systems and the product loss for a single high-risk department as compared to several standard departments. My results allowed for the calculation of a loss prevention equilibrium point, where the cost of loss prevention is equal to its benefits when using the Alpha boxes for the ink department.

Comments

Includes bibliography.

Extent

24 p.

Identifier

FA00012625

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