Effectiveness of CCTV Systems in Reducing Retail Robbery Rates and Employee Injur

描述（由申请人提供）：越来越多的州立法和地方条例要求零售场所安装闭路电视（CCTV）系统，以减少抢劫和与抢劫相关的员工受伤的风险。然而，人们对闭路电视系统在减少零售抢劫方面的有效性知之甚少，而对这些系统相对于更便宜的循证预防方法的额外好处所知更少。拟议项目的长期目标是为在零售环境中实施闭路电视系统的政策制定提供信息，以减少抢劫和与抢劫有关的暴力行为。总体目标是了解闭路电视系统在预防零售抢劫和与抢劫相关的员工伤害方面的作用。拟议的项目建立在现有的niosh资助的研究基础上，在该研究中，警察部门的犯罪预防专家正在他们的商业社区传播基于证据的抢劫和暴力预防计划（授权号：R01 OH009527）。拟议项目的具体目标是：1。描述一个公开的闭路电视系统在零售环境中的存在如何影响个人考虑抢劫的决策过程。描述安装在零售企业的闭路电视系统与国际识别协会成像技术科学工作组制定的安全行业标准的比较；检查闭路电视系统在减少零售企业抢劫和与抢劫有关的暴力方面的有效性，而不是基于证据的项目已经提供的。目标1将使用一项自我管理的调查，调查对象是300名最近从加州惩教和康复部门假释并被释放到奥克斯纳德市（加利福尼亚州）的人。目标2将使用一种数据收集工具，该工具由私人安全顾问开发，由目前向企业传播循证建议的预防犯罪专家完成。目标3将使用前瞻性队列设计来检查一年内CCTV系统与抢劫和与抢劫相关的员工伤害率之间的关系，控制现有循证策略的业务实施。实现这些目标将产生在综合抢劫和暴力预防计划背景下安装和操作闭路电视系统的建议，并将产生商业经营者如何改进闭路电视系统以满足安全行业指导方针的建议。拟议项目的贡献是重大的，因为政策制定者正在制定的立法没有得到对闭路电视系统有效性的充分评估的支持，也没有得到可能从中获益最多的零售场所类型的支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): State legislation and local ordinances are increasingly requiring retail establishments to install closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems to reduce the risk of robbery and robbery-related employee injury. However, little is known about the effectiveness of CCTV systems in reducing retail robbery, and even less is known about the added benefit of these systems over less expensive evidence-based prevention approaches. The long-term goal of the proposed project is to inform the development of policies for CCTV system implementation in retail environments for the reduction of robbery and robbery-related violence. The overall objective is to understand the role of CCTV systems in the prevention of retail robbery and robbery-related employee injury. The proposed project builds on an existing NIOSH-funded study, where police department crime prevention specialists are disseminating an evidence-based robbery and violence prevention program in their business communities (Grant #: R01 OH009527). The specific aims of the proposed project are to: 1. Describe how the presence of an overt CCTV system in the retail environment affects the decision- making process of individuals considering a robbery, 2. Describe how CCTV systems installed in retail businesses compare with security industry standards developed by the International Association for Identification's Scientific Working Group on Imaging Technology, and 3. Examine the effectiveness of CCTV systems in reducing robbery and robbery-related violence in retail businesses above what evidence-based programs already provide. Aim 1 will use a self-administered survey of 300 individuals recently paroled from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and released into the city of Oxnard (California). Aim 2 will use a data collection instrument developed by private security consultants and completed by the crime prevention specialists currently disseminating evidence-based recommendations to businesses. Aim 3 will use a prospective cohort design to examine the association between CCTV systems and robbery and robbery-related employee injury rates over a one-year period, controlling for business implementation of existing evidence-based strategies. Accomplishing these aims will result in recommendations for the installation and operation of CCTV systems within the context of a comprehensive robbery and violence prevention program and will result in recommendations for how business operators can improve CCTV systems to meet security industry guidelines. The contribution of the proposed project is significant because policymakers are developing legislation that is not backed by adequate evaluation of the effectiveness of CCTV systems and the types of retail settings that may gain the most from them. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed project is relevant to public health because it will inform the development of comprehensive programs to reduce robbery and violence in retail businesses. This will be done by understanding the role of CCTV systems in these comprehensive programs as well as the barriers businesses face in implementing and maintaining such systems.