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

描述（由申请人提供）：州立法和地方法令越来越多地要求零售机构安装闭路电视（CCTV）系统，以减少抢劫和与抢劫有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，更不了解这些系统相对于成本较低的循证预防方法的额外好处。拟议项目的长期目标是为零售环境中闭路电视系统实施政策的制定提供信息，以减少抢劫和与抢劫有关的暴力。整体目标是了解闭路电视系统在防止零售劫案及与劫案有关的雇员受伤方面的作用。拟议的项目建立在现有的NIOSH资助的研究，其中警察部门犯罪预防专家正在传播一个基于证据的抢劫和暴力预防计划在他们的商业社区（赠款#：R01 OH009527）。拟议项目的具体目标是：1.描述如何在零售环境中存在一个公开的闭路电视系统影响个人考虑抢劫的决策过程，2。描述安装在零售企业的闭路电视系统如何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进行比较。检查闭路电视系统在减少零售业抢劫和与抢劫有关的暴力方面的有效性，这些系统超过了以证据为基础的方案所提供的。目标1将对最近从加州惩教和康复部假释并释放到奥克斯纳德市（加州）的300名个人进行自我管理调查。目标2将使用由私人安全顾问开发的数据收集工具，并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CCTV系统与一年内抢劫和抢劫相关员工受伤率之间的关联，控制现有循证策略的业务实施。实现这些目标将导致在一个全面的抢劫和暴力预防方案的背景下，闭路电视系统的安装和操作的建议，并将导致建议，企业经营者如何可以改善闭路电视系统，以满足安全行业的准则。拟议项目的贡献是巨大的，因为决策者正在制定立法，但没有对闭路电视系统的有效性以及可能从中获益最多的零售环境类型进行充分评估。 公共卫生相关性：拟议的项目与公共卫生有关，因为它将为制定减少零售业抢劫和暴力的综合方案提供信息。这将通过了解CCTV系统在这些综合项目中的作用以及企业在实施和维护此类系统时面临的障碍来实现。

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.