Loss prevention and risk management has become a growing industry for businesses and corporations. Loss prevention is playing a larger role in organized crime cases in the retail sector. Experienced groups have targeted retailers for many years, but retailers are only just beginning to come together to combat organized retail theft by developing crime databases and implementing prevention services. more solid losses. The rapid growth of organized retail theft has affected the way retail loss prevention departments handle large cases. The FBI explains that ORC is a term commonly used by the retail industry and by state and local law enforcement. It remains difficult to clearly define because it can be composed of multiple underlying crimes and is subject to different interpretations by retail and law enforcement stakeholders (2001). The federal definition of "organized retail theft" uses the term ORC to refer to a broader set of crimes that can affect retail actors, such as fraud associated with gift cards or product returns. Distinctively, under federal law, organized retail theft is defined as: violation of a state prohibition on retail theft or shoplifting, if the violation consists of the theft of quantities of 'items which would not usually be purchased for private use or consumption and for the principle of resale of the items or reintegration of the items into the business; secondly, the receipt, control, removal, barter, sale, transportation or transfer of any property which is known or should be known to have been taken in violation of the paragraph of the first point; or thirdly that the coordination, organization or recruitment of persons to undertake the conduct described...... middle of article ......ormation.htmlLaRocca, J. (June 2011). NRF investigation into organized retail crime. CNBC is shouting in the street. Retrieved from http://blog.nrf.com/2011/06/08/joe-larocca-discusses-nrf-organized-retail-crime-survey-on-cnbc/ Rogers, K., (December 2001) Retail Organized Crime. LP Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.lpportal.com/feature-articles/item/1-organized-retail-theft.htmlLoss Prevention Research Council (September 2007). Shoplifting statistics and tactics. Retrieved from http://www.lpresearch.org/cms/node/270Organized Retail Crime Report, (October 2009). The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, 78(10), retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com.mendel.csuniv.eduOrganized Retail Theft, (January 2011). FBI Law Enforcement Stories. Retrieved from http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/january/retail_010311 United States Department of Justice, 2009. Crime Statistics.