CRIM 101 Lecture : CHAPTER 10 NOTES - CRIME AND EMPLOYMENT
20 Oct 2011
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The changing workplace: nature of the workplace has changed significantly over the last few decades, better paying, full-time manufacturing jobs have been disappearing, replaced by lower paying (often part time) service jobs, women at work, new technology. **teenagers and employment: evidence suggests that employed teenagers are more likely to be involved in crime than unemployed teenagers, away from home more often, have their own money, may have their own transportation. **risk factors (precursors: dealing with a large number of people, handling cash money, doing a lot of traveling, delivering goods or passengers. Theft of personal property: 21% of burglaries take place while victim is at work, some employees have their personal property stolen by co-workers while they"re in the workplace. Reporting workplace crime: victimization incidents in the workplace likely to go unreported, many employers have in-house methods for addressing such issues e. g. , private security forces, internal disciplinary procedures, dismissal of troublesome employees.
