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Crime and Loss Prevention

Chapter Outline

Introduction

The challenge of crime to society changes with the advance of civilization, particularly as technology continues to improve. Advancing technology brings greater opportunity and human comforts. But it also introduces new opportunities and temptations for human greed.

In the preface to the original printing of Oliver Twist, Dickens described 19th-century ...

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