ABSTRACT
While there has been considerable research into household burglaries, little has been written about commercial burglary: break-ins to shops, stores, offices, factories, warehouses, etc. To some extent, this reflects a greater emphasis on crimes where individuals or households, rather than organisations or businesses, are the victims. Certainly, despite one early study in the USA (Reiss 1967), business victim surveys have only recently ‘taken off’ – the 1994 Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS), conducted by the Home Office as part of a wider international survey, being a case in point (van Dijk and Terlouw 1996). 1
