The CRISP Report on Mass Homicides by Employees in the American Workplace by Seungmug(Zech) Lee and Robert McCrie has brought attention to mass homicide that has been occurring in work places around the United States since the 1980s. CRISP or Connecting Research in Security to Practice, provides reports on insights of security issues to provide knowledge about a certain aspect and how to counter it using security research to perform better security practices. The authors bring up how incidents of workplace mass homicide, or what the authors call WMH, occurs. They discuss why WMH occurs, the demographics of the report being presented, and the motive behind WMH. They then place emphasis on WMH and how it should be defined with various theories
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The offenders have no criminal record or drug usage in their past or history. This statement takes away the conventional criminals who commit homicide who commonly have a reflective history of drug use and dependency and a criminal record on their backgrounds. As stated before the offenders are ordinary working class employees who committed WMH this way due to certain social circumstances. The initiative to mitigate the risk of WMH has been taken into account by the CRISP report in order to reduce the statistics of Workplace Mass Homicide. The act of threatening an employee or workplace violence occurring has a negative effect on the employees. Companies that experienced workplace violence have received a negative effect on the morale of workers. This resulted in a negative impact on production or worker productivity and an increase security spending. In order to decrease the risk of workplace violence the authors of this report brought out the following resolutions being presented. The important theme behind mitigation of WMH is sensitivity. The authors take into account the possibility of job termination through unfair evaluation that their …show more content…
Despite the tragedies that occurred as a result of WMH, there are benefits as a result. There can be various beneficial lessons learned as a result of this report. The positive benefits as a result of this report is finding the motivation and reasoning behind why people would perform acts of workplace homicide. A second benefit that is to be considered is the data being presented showing a decline in workplace violence from 1990-2000. The third benefit that has been taken into account by the authors in this report would be the solutions both long term and short term to mitigate the risk of workplace homicide. It should be noted that the report manages to bring out what makes a homicide by employees differ from other homicide reports in addition to the motivation and conflict that lead to such an event. Lastly, the report managed to bring out the psychological aspect to WMH of both the offender and the people or employees that have witnessed the crime first hand and how it affects them in the work environment as a result. Despite these benefits learned there are weaknesses in this WMH report. WMH may not even have a finished solution due to the questions that have been brought out as a result of this report, such as question of how can we prevent homicide in workplaces before it occurs. Since work evaluation is the major cause of WMH it is difficult to
The offenders have no criminal record or drug usage in their past or history. This statement takes away the conventional criminals who commit homicide who commonly have a reflective history of drug use and dependency and a criminal record on their backgrounds. As stated before the offenders are ordinary working class employees who committed WMH this way due to certain social circumstances. The initiative to mitigate the risk of WMH has been taken into account by the CRISP report in order to reduce the statistics of Workplace Mass Homicide. The act of threatening an employee or workplace violence occurring has a negative effect on the employees. Companies that experienced workplace violence have received a negative effect on the morale of workers. This resulted in a negative impact on production or worker productivity and an increase security spending. In order to decrease the risk of workplace violence the authors of this report brought out the following resolutions being presented. The important theme behind mitigation of WMH is sensitivity. The authors take into account the possibility of job termination through unfair evaluation that their …show more content…
Despite the tragedies that occurred as a result of WMH, there are benefits as a result. There can be various beneficial lessons learned as a result of this report. The positive benefits as a result of this report is finding the motivation and reasoning behind why people would perform acts of workplace homicide. A second benefit that is to be considered is the data being presented showing a decline in workplace violence from 1990-2000. The third benefit that has been taken into account by the authors in this report would be the solutions both long term and short term to mitigate the risk of workplace homicide. It should be noted that the report manages to bring out what makes a homicide by employees differ from other homicide reports in addition to the motivation and conflict that lead to such an event. Lastly, the report managed to bring out the psychological aspect to WMH of both the offender and the people or employees that have witnessed the crime first hand and how it affects them in the work environment as a result. Despite these benefits learned there are weaknesses in this WMH report. WMH may not even have a finished solution due to the questions that have been brought out as a result of this report, such as question of how can we prevent homicide in workplaces before it occurs. Since work evaluation is the major cause of WMH it is difficult to