“…The research focus, largely dependent on government finance, has hence turned towards the criminal justice response to victimisation, evaluating changes in criminal justice and crime prevention policy in relation to victims (for example, in the U.K., Crawford and Goodey, 2000;Fenwick, 1995;Crawford and Enterkin, 1999;JUSTICE, 1998) and the more recent interest in restorative justice (Holdaway eta/., 200 l;Miers eta/., 2001;Newburn et al, 2002;Shapland eta/., 2004). Since the initial flush of research in the 1980s, there has been a relative dearth of individual research projects on the effects ofvictimisation on individuals or businesses.…”