Abstract
Though still under-explored, crimes against businesses have begun to receive increasing attention from criminologists. For example, the British Retail Consortium ‘Retail Crime Costs’ reports and the Home Office Commercial Victimisation survey measured rates of crime against business nationally; on the local level, surveys such as the Small Business and Crime Initiative have measured crime rates against businesses within a small geographical area. Here we consider some of the findings and implications of the first Scottish Business Crime survey (SBC). This builds upon the methodology and practice of previous national surveys by utilising both ‘head office’ and ‘premises’ surveys to measure rates of crime against businesses in the manufacturing, construction, wholesale/retail, hotels/restaurants and transport/communications sectors. Overall, some of the findings of the SBC are comparable to previous surveys conducted in England and Wales. However, more rigorous analysis of victimisation patterns within different business sectors begins to establish a more comprehensive picture of the uneven risks of victimisation for different business types.
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