ABSTRACT
Corporate crime data (CCD) is a valuable source of information about actual criminal activity committed against organisations. However, it has received scant attention from researchers and organisations when assessing the risk of criminal behaviour in this context. This chapter argues that CCD requires re-evaluation by organisations as a source of knowledge that can be utilised as business intelligence to combat crime committed against them. At the same time it argues that behavioural research of this ‘noisy’ source of data can be undertaken to increase our understanding of crime against organisations. This increased understanding can directly inform both investigative and preventative strategies at the corporate level and theories of crime at the academic level. However, such requirements are not without their methodological difficulties, and these are reviewed. A discussion of the advantages of integrating traditional research approaches to corporate crime and direct assessment of criminal activity conclude the article.
