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Industry Fast Facts
Crime Characteristics: Summary Findings Bureau of Justice Statistics
Statistical Analysis:
- 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.
Statistics on Pre-employment Drug Screening and results.
Compliance
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Organizations
- Background Screening – Past, Present and Future (napbs)
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
- U.S. Department of Justice Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (individual’s request for FBI records)
- U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
- National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics (SEARCH)
- Nonprofit Risk Management Center
Industry Articles – Why you need to cover all bases for your business
- Dos and Don’ts of Conducting Employee Background Checks
- How Convicted Felons Can Slip Through Safety Net
- Flawed Employment Background Check Procedures Highlighted by Recent Legal Actions
- Report to the Nations: On Occupational Fraud and Abuse
- Workplace Violence U.S. Department of Justice: Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Do You Really Know Your Contractors? The Hard Evidence for Contractor Screening and Employment Background Check Searches
- Do a Thorough Background Check on Workers — or Let the Hirer Beware
- The Costliest Part of a Bad Hire Isn’t What You Think
- Nearly Seven in Ten Businesses Affected by a Bad Hire in the Past Year, according to CareerBuilder Survey
- Has Your Organization Been Affected By a Bad Hire?
- The Unexpectedly High Cost of a Bad Hire
- HR Pros Share the Impact of a Bad Hire
- New Developments in Pre-Employment Background Checks
- Bad Hires Cost Small Businesses Money
- If A Bad Hire Is So Costly, Why Are So Many Doing It?