ABSTRACT
This chapter positions crime at work as presenting a set of investigative problems that are similar to those of 4public' crime, although there may be a narrower range of behavioural or crime scene clues. Studies using survey and content analysis of archives, do however; support the general Investigative Psychology hypothesis that across a sample of offenders, there will be systematic co-variance between characteristics of the offender and characteristics of the offence. By extrapolating these co variances, the resources available to the detective can be enhanced, and more importantly, criminal behaviour at work can be perceived as a systems phenomenon. This offers the possibility of cross-organisational crime prevention strategies where crime can be designed out by greater sensitivity to the risks that individuals may present when they find themselves in tempting environments. By viewing crime as a sub-system of the organisation, and by seeing employee crime as an accumulating developmental path of deviance, intervention methods which are more discerning, more long term, and behaviourally based than those based on physical security alone are suggested.
