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Reflections on Policing in Post-Soviet Ukraine: A Case Study of Continuity by Beck, Adrian

“…Over the last 10 years the countries emerging from the break up of the Soviet Union have grappled with the reform of their criminal justice systems, with some…”
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Moving beyond shrinkage: developing a definition and typology of total retail loss by Beck, Adrian

“…While the term ‘shrinkage’ has been in use for over 100 years to describe retail losses, there continues to be little consensus on what it actually means and…”
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Reconceptualising loss in retailing: calling time on 'shrinkage' by Beck, Adrian

“…For more than 100 years the retail industry has relied primarily upon the term 'shrinkage' to define how retail 'losses' are understood and controlled. There…”
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Scan and rob! Convenience shopping, crime opportunity and corporate social responsibility in a mobile world by Beck, Adrian, Hopkins, Matt

“…One of the unintended consequences of technological innovation is that it can promote opportunities for crime. These opportunities not only have the potential…”
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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods by BALAFOUTAS, LOUKAS, BECK, ADRIAN, KERSCHBAMER, RUDOLF, SUTTER, MATTHIAS

“…Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behaviour by sellers. This article presents…”
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Car mechanics in the lab––Investigating the behavior of real experts on experimental markets for credence goods by Beck, Adrian, Kerschbamer, Rudolf, Qiu, Jianying, Sutter, Matthias

“…•External validity of laboratory data is addressed.•Real car mechanics are investigated in experimental credence goods markets.•Behavior of car mechanics and…”
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Self-scan checkouts and retail loss: Understanding the risk and minimising the threat by Beck, Adrian

“…Using retailer case studies and a survey of employees, data are presented assessing the extent to which the introduction of self-scan checkouts in the retail…”
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Understanding fraudulent returns and mitigation strategies in multichannel retailing by Zhang, Danni, Frei, Regina, Senyo, P.K., Bayer, Steffen, Gerding, Enrico, Wills, Gary, Beck, Adrian

“…The growth of online retailing has exceeded expectations over the last few years. This has resulted in high product return rates, which retailers are…”
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The hidden costs of tax evasion by Balafoutas, Loukas, Beck, Adrian, Kerschbamer, Rudolf, Sutter, Matthias

“…We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from…”
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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods by Balafoutas, L., Beck, A., Kerschbamer, R., Sutter, M.

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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods by Balafoutas, Loukas, Beck, Adrian, Kerschbamer, Rudolf, Sutter, Matthias

“…Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behaviour by sellers. This article presents…”
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The challenges to developing democratic policing in post-Soviet societies: the Russian experience by Beck, Adrian, Robertson, Annette

“…This paper reviews the nature of policing in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, focusing on the major challenges the country continues to face in…”
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The Importance of Visual Situational Cues and Difficulty of Removal in Creating Deterrence: The Limitations of Electronic Article Surveillance Source Tagging in the Retail Environment by Beck, Adrian, Palmer, Walter

“…Shrinkage continues to be a considerable cost to the retail industry, with a recent estimate suggesting that globally it could be as much as $278 billion a…”
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The Importance of Visual Situational Cues and Difficulty of Removal in Creating Deterrence: The Limitations of Electronic Article Surveillance Source Tagging in the Retail Environment by Beck, Adrian, Palmer, Walter

“…Shrinkage continues to be a considerable cost to the retail industry, with a recent estimate suggesting that globally it could be as much as $278 billion a…”
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Shaping beliefs in experimental markets for expert services: Guilt aversion and the impact of promises and money-burning options by Beck, Adrian, Kerschbamer, Rudolf, Qiu, Jianying, Sutter, Matthias

“…In a credence goods game with an expert and a consumer, we study experimentally the impact of two devices that are predicted to induce consumer-friendly…”
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The Emperor Has No Clothes: What Future Role for Technology in Reducing Retail Shrinkage? by Beck, Adrian

“…Introduction In the ECR Europe shrinkage survey of 2004, the overall rate of loss for retailers in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector was estimated…”
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The Optical Appearance of Wood Related to Nanoscale Surface Roughness by Hauptmann, Markus, Müller, Ulrich, Obersriebnig, Michael, Gindl-Altmutter, Wolfgang, Beck, Adrian, Hansmann, Christian

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A Pneumatically Driven Arm Muscle Training System Realizing Wide Motion Range and Large Moment Arm by Beck, Adrian, Tomita, Yoshihide, Miyazaki, Tetsuro, Kawashima, Kenji

“…Machine-human interaction training systems have been proposed to improve muscle workout efficiency by guiding the user with an ideal motion trajectory to…”
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Crime and Policing in Post-Soviet Societies: Bridging the Police/Public Divide by Beck, Adrian, Chistyakova, Yulia

“…This paper explores the current relationship between the police and the public in one of the post-Soviet states, Ukraine, and looks at the prospects for future…”
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Crime in Russia: Exploring the Link between Victimisation and Concern about Crime by Beck, Adrian, Robertson, Annette

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