What Can a Security Manager Do to Prevent Expressive Crimes Occurring in the Workplace- Being Discussed with Reference to Criminology and Crime Prevention Theory

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Written by: Mustafa Aktas/MSc in Security & Risk Management WHAT CAN A SECURITY MANAGER DO TO PREVENT EXPRESSIVE CRIMES OCCURRING IN THE WORKPLACE? BEING DISCUSSED WITH REFERENCE TO CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIME PREVENTION THEORY. Page 1 of 10 Expressive crimes such as violence and vandalism in the workplace and their prevention pose a considerable concern to security managers. They also pose a challenge to the criminological understanding and thus to prevention or mitigation strategies both because they are not outcome focused but used as a means to express strong negative feelings or reactions against a situation or individual, and because this such crimes are induced by rather nebulous factors such as psychological /social disorders, reaction to the system at the workplace or society, and reaction against decisions taken by authority, all often beyond the professional scope of security personnel. This essay explores the variety of expressive crimes that may occur in the workplace, the most common reasons put forward to account for expressive crimes, and how security managers can prevent expressive crimes. It is vital for effective prevention that security managers possess familiarity with a typology of expressive crimes. The security manager should also be familiar theoretical modes for understanding the causation of expressive crimes, along with methods for mitigation and prevention. Expressive crime is not outcome focused but used as a means to express strong negative feelings or reactions against a situation or individual(s). Principal examples of expressive crimes are perceived and actual violence, including physical attack on an individual or their property while carrying out work related activities, vandalism which includes intentional and malicious destruction of or damage to the property of another and arson. (Module One: Unit 6, University of

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