In this episode of LPRC CrimeScience, Dr. Laura Huey, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario and the Director of the Canadian Society of Evidence-Based Policing (CAN-SEBP), joins Dr. Read Hayes to discuss her background, victimization of...
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Tune in to the LPRC’s CrimeScience Podcast for a deep dive into various aspects of retail crime, loss prevention, and asset protection.
Hosted by industry experts Dr. Read Hayes, Tom Meehan, and Tony D’Onofrio, we strive to inform, educate, and empower retail industry professionals with practical and actionable insights.

CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 20 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan
253 deaths took place in retail locations – an increase of 45% from this second quarter. Why is the total revolving credit card debt down 10%? Dr. Read Hayes, Tom Meehan, and Tony D’Onofrio discuss this and more, including COVID-19 vaccine testing, LPRC...
CrimeScience Episode 58 – Team Safety, Training, and Building Resilience During COVID-19 ft. Debbie Perano (Bunnings)
In this episode of LPRC CrimeScience, Debbie Perano, Loss Prevention Manager at Bunnings, joins Dr. Read Hayes to discuss how her team dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic, including team safety & training, strategies, priorities, and interdepartmental collaboration....
CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 19 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, Tom Meehan and Featured Guest Greg Buzek (IHL Group)
In this episode of LPRC CrimeScience: The Weekly Review, Dr. Read Hayes, Tom Meehan, and Tony D’Onofrio are joined by Greg Buzek, Founder and President of the IHL Group, to delve into COVID-19’s impact on retail, inventory distortion, emerging technologies...
CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 18 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan
In this episode of LPRC CrimeScience: The Weekly Review, Dr. Read Hayes, Tom Meehan, and Tony D’Onofrio gives a breakdown of LPRC initiatives, vaccines & therapeutics, the Twitter cyber-attack, social engineering, cyber-security during COVID-19, 2020 murder...
CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 17 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, Tom Meehan and Featured Guest John-Pierre “JP” Kamel (RFID Sherpas)
In this episode of LPRC CrimeScience: The Weekly Review, featured guest John-Pierre “JP” Kamel, RFID specialist, joins Dr. Read Hayes, Tom Meehan, and Tony D’Onofrio to discuss RFID as a data collection tool and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected its role in...
CrimeScience Episode 57 – Offender Profiling, Criminal Behavior, and Prolific Offending ft. Dr. Bryanna Fox (University of South Florida)
In this episode of LPRC CrimeScience, we welcome Dr. Bryanna Fox, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Faculty Affiliate of the Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida. She joins Dr. Read Hayes to discuss...
CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 16 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan
In this episode of LPRC CrimeScience: The Weekly Review, Dr. Read Hayes, Tom Meehan, and Tony D’Onofrio discuss LPRC initiatives, face masks, the retail data this week, store closures, inventory distortion, supply chain issues, NRF’s shrink survey results,...
CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 15 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, Tom Meehan and Featured Guest Basia Pietrawska
In this episode of LPRC CrimeScience: The Weekly Review, we welcome featured guest, Basia Pietrawska, Vice President of Consulting and Analytics at CAP Index. She joins Dr. Read Hayes, Tom Meehan, and Tony D’Onofrio to discuss LPRC initiatives, COVID-19 &...
CrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 14 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, and Tom Meehan
In order to accurately represent the wide-reaching content of this podcast, we have changed the COVID-19 Series name to The Weekly Review. Read Hayes, Tom Meehan, and Tony D’Onofrio discuss LPRC initiatives, global consumer trends, new shopping channels,...