Natalie Taylor and Kate Charlton assessed the effects of the Queensland Police Service shopfronts program on crime reporting to determine whether shopkeepers were experiencing rising levels of crime or were more likely to report criminal incidents when a police shopfront was present. They compared two centres, one with a police shopfront and one without, and...

While the online retailing environment has provided businesses with an unparalleled opportunity to expand and improve their profits, it has also increased the vulnerability of businesses to online credit card fraud. Kate Charlton and Natalie Taylor present findings of an empirical study of the risks faced by Australian small businesses when they trade online. As...

The report is founded on evidence obtained directly from victims of drink spiking in addition to data received from police in each Australian jurisdiction and data from the Centre Against Sexual Assault. Natalie Taylor, Jeremy Prichard and Kate Charlton highlight the degree to which drink spiking is under-reported, a fundamental challenge in measuring the extent...