Employees as Offenders

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This study examines patterns of trust violation based on inspection of the confidential security records of three depart ment store companies which apprehended 1,681 dishonest em ployees between 1949 and 1964. The data are particularly interesting because of the so-called "respectable, middle class" population of offenders, a substantial proportion of whom were female salesclerks and virtually all of whom had no prior criminal record. The substantive areas of offense patterns studied included the following: how employees were discovered, prompt ness with which stores took action against suspects, collusive versus solitary nature of acts, rates of apprehension, size of theft, object of theft (merchandise and/or cash), modus operandi, and recovery characteristics. Variation in offense patterns is related to demographic data and employment information, especially to position in the company and length of service.

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