Analyze situational crime aspects in the New York Presbyterian Hospital Organization
INTRODUCTION
Situational crimes refer to criminal activities that occur mainly because of the environmental condition of an organization.
They are also caused by an aspect of having the place where they take place encouraging their occurrence in a certain way (Mancilla, & Moczygemba, 2009).
Presentation evaluates situational crime aspects in the New York Presbyterian Hospital Organization
Situational crimes can easily be prevented through the use of effective security measures in an organizational environmental design.
Security factors of an organization thus have the ability to ensure that all forms of situational crimes are completely prevented from taking place.
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ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW
New York Presbyterian Hospital Organization is a healthcare providing organization that serves a large number of patients on a daily basis.
The organization has been facing challenges in implementing effectiveness of operation and ensuring that it remains profitable.
In order to improve its situation, the organization has improvement strategies in place.
Like all healthcare providing organizations, this organization has been facing major challenges in its operations.
In response to this aspect, the organization has many processes in place that are aimed at helping in establishing effective improvement strategies.
The strategies include implementing methods to prevent situational crimes from taking place.
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1ST SITUATIONAL CRIME
A situational crime that can take place in this organization is the crime of unauthorized access to patient data and organizational equipment.
In order to ensure the relationship between patients and their physicians remain confidential, there is need for authorization before physicians attain patient information.
When unauthorized individuals attain this information in an inappropriate way, this is considered a crime.
The criminal activity of accessing patient information when one is unauthorized can result in the hospital facing litigation charges from a patient.
Since there are measures that can be put in place to prevent such a crime, it is considered a situational crime.
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2ND SITUATIONAL CRIME
Another crime that can take place in the New York Presbyterian Hospital is the crime of theft for organizational equipment.
The organization has many healthcare equipment which have high value.
Most people who work in the organization are healthcare providing professionals who many have use for high value equipment.
In a situation where an individual steals an organizational equipment, the criminal activity is considered extreme and can cause certain members of the organizational staff to lose their jobs.
Since this criminal activities can be prevented through implementation of certain security erasures, it is considered to be part of situational crimes.
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3RD SITUATIONAL CRIME
Another criminal activity that can take place within the organization is identity theft.
Identity theft is a situation where an individual assumes the identity of another individual in order to obtain authorization to access certain resources of the organization.
This criminal activity can result in major problems for the organization especially where the identity thief is ill-intentioned and attains access to essential data and resources (Benson, & Simpson, 2014).
Identity theft is a major challenge that the organization might face, which might cause major problems to the organization when unauthorized individuals manage to attain access to organizational resources and data.
This crime can be prevented through certain organizational measures and thus it is part of situational crimes.
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IMPACT OF 1ST SITUATIONAL CRIME
An individual managing to attain patient treatment information when he or she is unauthorized can cause major problems.
The patient may decide to file a case on the organization for not honoring its confidentiality policy.
Such an aspect could then cause the organization to spend significant amounts of money in compensations.
The crime can also tarnish the reputation of the organization.
The organization should establish strategies through which it can manage to prevent any form of unauthorized access of patient data and information to prevent these negative occurrences.
Implementation of these strategies can help the organization succeed in preventing these negative impacts of the crime.
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IMPACT OF 2ND SITUATIONAL CRIME
Theft for organizational equipment can result to shrinkage and loss.
When the organization looses some of its equipment, it incurs loses, since it may require to either operate without them or purchase others.
This crime can also make some sections of the organization not operational for a while, especially when the equipment stolen was necessary to maintain operation.
Having organizational equipment stolen could result in the organization being unable to operate effectively.
The stolen equipment could also cause the organization to incur significant losses, especially when the equipment were of high value.
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IMPACT OF 3RD SITUATIONAL CRIME
Identity theft can cause major problems within the organization.
It can cause some organizational employees to be implied to have committed criminal activities which they did not .
The crime can also result in the organization having its image and reputation tarnished (Freilich, 2015).
This criminal activity can cause the organization to also incur compensation loses, especially when patient data is leaked.
Identity theft in some occasions may cause people from the organization to believe that one of their colleagues committed a crime, when his or her identity is used in committing that crime.
The organization requires to implement certain measures to prevent the occurrence of this crime.
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ELIMINATION STRATEGIES OF 1ST SITUATIONAL CRIME
To eliminate the crime of unauthorized access to patient data, the first step is establishing a secure way of defining those who can access the data.
The organization should provide all individuals authorized to access patient data with computer login credentials to give them access to storage computers of the data.
The rooms where the data is stored should also have access keys given to only those who are authorized to access.
The organization should ensure that all employees have different forms of clearances and can access only the organizational data and equipment they need to complete their tasks and activities.
An all time security surveillance should be established within the organization.
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ELIMINATION STRATEGIES OF 2ND SITUATIONAL CRIME
To prevent any form of organizational equipment from being stolen, the first strategy should be establishing security access keys for where the equipment are stored.
The keys would ensure that all individuals who can access the equipment are known.
Another strategy is establishing surveillance cameras in places where all the high value equipment are stored.
This strategy would make it simple to identify those who access them.
Establishing access keys to rooms where high value equipment are stored would discourage any individual without an access key from accessing the equipment.
Surveillance cameras would make it difficult for ill intentioned individuals from being able to access the equipment without being identified.
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ELIMINATION STRATEGIES OF 3RD SITUATIONAL CRIME
Identity theft can be prevent with first, making it difficult for other people to copy the technology used to create access keys to sections of the organization.
With this strategy, other individuals would not manage to access the premises with the original access keys provided by the organization (Tunley, Shepherd, & Blackbourn, 2018).
The other strategy is establishing the means through which all individuals would ensure that they have their keys with them at all times.
Reporting any form of access keys would make it difficult for employees to loose their door keys without noticing.
Regularly changing access credentials to organizational computers would also make it difficult for others to learn the credentials for access.
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CONCLUSION
A number of situational crimes can occur within the New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Implementation of essential mitigation measures can however discourage people from involving in these criminal activities.
The effectiveness of the mitigation strategies implemented determines the extent to which people would be discouraged from committing the crimes.
The New York Presbyterian Hospital can manage to limit the number of cases where situational crimes occur by improving its security environmental state.
Through these strategies, the organization can manage to ensure that very few situations of crime are reported over time.
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REFERENCES
Mancilla, D. & Moczygemba, J. (2009). Exploring Medical Identity Theft. Perspectives in Health information Management. Retrieved from https ://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804460 /
Benson, M. L., & Simpson, S. S. (2014). Understanding white-collar crime: An opportunity perspective. Routledge.
Tunley, M., Button, M., Shepherd, D., & Blackbourn, D. (2018). Preventing occupational corruption: utilizing situational crime prevention techniques and theory to enhance organizational resilience. Security Journal, 31(1), 21-52.
Freilich, J. D. (2015). Beccaria and situational crime prevention. Criminal Justice Review, 40(2), 131-150.
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Situational crimes can easily be prevented through the use of effective security measures in an organizational environmental design.
Security factors of an organization thus have the ability to ensure that all forms of situational crimes are completely prevented from taking place.
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Like all healthcare providing organizations, this organization has been facing major challenges in its operations.
In response to this aspect, the organization has many processes in place that are aimed at helping in establishing effective improvement strategies.
The strategies include implementing methods to prevent situational crimes from taking place.
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The criminal activity of accessing patient information when one is unauthorized can result in the hospital facing litigation charges from a patient.
Since there are measures that can be put in place to prevent such a crime, it is considered a situational crime.
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In a situation where an individual steals an organizational equipment, the criminal activity is considered extreme and can cause certain members of the organizational staff to lose their jobs.
Since this criminal activities can be prevented through implementation of certain security erasures, it is considered to be part of situational crimes.
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Identity theft is a major challenge that the organization might face, which might cause major problems to the organization when unauthorized individuals manage to attain access to organizational resources and data.
This crime can be prevented through certain organizational measures and thus it is part of situational crimes.
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The organization should establish strategies through which it can manage to prevent any form of unauthorized access of patient data and information to prevent these negative occurrences.
Implementation of these strategies can help the organization succeed in preventing these negative impacts of the crime.
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Having organizational equipment stolen could result in the organization being unable to operate effectively.
The stolen equipment could also cause the organization to incur significant losses, especially when the equipment were of high value.
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Identity theft in some occasions may cause people from the organization to believe that one of their colleagues committed a crime, when his or her identity is used in committing that crime.
The organization requires to implement certain measures to prevent the occurrence of this crime.
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The organization should ensure that all employees have different forms of clearances and can access only the organizational data and equipment they need to complete their tasks and activities.
An all time security surveillance should be established within the organization.
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Establishing access keys to rooms where high value equipment are stored would discourage any individual without an access key from accessing the equipment.
Surveillance cameras would make it difficult for ill intentioned individuals from being able to access the equipment without being identified.
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Reporting any form of access keys would make it difficult for employees to loose their door keys without noticing.
Regularly changing access credentials to organizational computers would also make it difficult for others to learn the credentials for access.
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The New York Presbyterian Hospital can manage to limit the number of cases where situational crimes occur by improving its security environmental state.
Through these strategies, the organization can manage to ensure that very few situations of crime are reported over time.
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