CRIME PREVENTION STRATEGY

Crime Prevention Strategy

Table of Content

Introduction1

Company Overview2

Discussion3

Type of crime that is most commonly effecting the organization3

Theories explaining why people commit this crime5

Classical theory5

Sociological theory7

Recommendations8

Conclusion10

References13

Crime Prevention Strategy

Introduction

Crime is an act which leads to breach of rules and laws set by a governing authority. When it comes to social and legal framework, it is considered as the set of facts or assumptions which includes causes, consequences and objectives and those acts which are punishable under criminal law. Crime is one issue that is prevailing everywhere in today's world; particularly it is raising at workplace by the employees that severely effects organizations and their businesses.

A wide range of crimes exist in the workplace. There are some crimes which are committed by customers against businesses, then some crimes are committed by businesses themselves that includes tax evasion, illegal dumping of waste or fraud. Then there are some crimes that are committed by the employees against the organization, this type of crime is most critical as it effects the whole organization and business (www.eurojournals.com). Here in this report we will focus on those crimes which are committed by the employees against the organization.

Crimes that are rising in the organizations are of various types like theft and fraud, and the most commonly observed crime is Employee Theft. It is actually the theft or misuse of employer's assets without their prior permission to do so. It includes stealing of money, merchandise, company property and most importantly company information. Also employees are involved in the theft of time which means they do not work for the proper time which they are paid for, it is sometimes done by falsifying the time record while at times it refers to those employees who do not work even though they are available on job (www.eurojournals.com). Lastly the most important and considerable of all is the theft of information which includes the stealing of the company's confidential information which may cause harm to the organization if revealed to its other competitors. It is very common for the companies which retain any sort of customer data in their database. Nowadays this type of crime has become a problem of considerable size for many companies but here in this report we have particularly focused on our organization and the issues we are facing due to existence of these crimes. Below is a brief overview of the company with some facts and figures which will later help us out in preparing the strategy for crime prevention in our company.

Company Overview

If we talk about “G4S secure solutions”, it is an organization which is well known as the largest provider of security solutions in UK. As our company is dealing with very sensitive issues related to security, it is very important to keep a check on the overall organizational environment that there would not be any criminal activities.

If we come to some facts and figures about G4S we may better understand the level of confidential information the company is retaining and which may cause real ...