Survey and Study Reports
by Industry Sources
The following survey and study reports may be of interest to employers seeking information about background checks and employment screening.
Crime Characteristics: Summary Findings
Bureau of Justice Statisticshttp://www.ojp.gov/bjs/cvict_c.htm
Points of Interest:
- Workplace violence accounted for 18 percent of all violent crime.
- Victims of workplace violence identified intimates as the perpetrator in about 1 percent of all violent workplace crimes. About 40 percent of the victims of nonfatal violence in the workplace reported that they knew their offenders.
- Of victims of violent crime, 22 percent were involved in some form of leisure activity away from home at the time of their victimization, 22 percent said they were at home, and another 20 percent mentioned they were at work or traveling to or from work when the crime occurred.
- While working or on duty, U.S. residents experienced 1.7 million violent victimizations annually from 1993 to 1999, including 1.3 million simple assaults, 325,000 aggravated assaults, 36,500 rapes and sexual assaults, 70,000 robberies, and 900 homicides.
- In every year from 1992 to 2002, students ages 12-18 were more likely to experience a serious violent crime away from school than at school.
ACFE 2006 Report to the Nation on Occupational Fraud and Abuse
Association of Certified Fraud Examinershttp://www.acfe.com/documents/2006-rttn.pdf
Points of Interest:
- The most critical measure is to undertake meticulous background checks on all new employees. Resumes should be checked thoroughly to verify that the applicant did graduate from the schools claimed. Any unaccounted-for time in the person's past must be acceptably explained. To guard against bogus employment references, a prospective employer should never rely on the resume as the source for the telephone number of an applicant's previous employer.
- An estimated 5 percent of annual revenues are lost to fraud.
- The average loss for organizations with fewer than 100 employees was $190,000 per scheme.
- Just over 30 percent of the fraud was committed by employees of the accounting department. Slightly more than 20 percent of the fraud was committed by upper management or executive-level employees. Sales department employees accounted for 14 percent of the cases.
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