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This 15 page paper looks at the risks and reactions to terrorism within the accounting and finance industry. The paper starts by considering the way crime theory may be used to assess risks of terrorism, looking at concepts such as opportunity theory, rational choice theory and routine actions theory and then assesses the measures that have been out into place within the industry. The paper compares the UK with Saudi Arabia to assess effectiveness of measures in different countries. The bibliography cites 23 sources
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File: TS14_TEaccterror.rtf
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individual lives but on different types of organizations, from the airports and airlines that need to ensure that they have sufficient measure in place to ensure the protection of the
passengers and the staff (West and Orr, 2005). Other areas of increased attention have seen concerns for the physical security of many other types of business. Not only to protect
staff but also the need to take measures to protect the business and its ability to continue, which may be impaired by terrorism, either as a direct result of an
attack, or difficulty in recovering. However, when looking at instruction and industry responses to terrorism the concept and the implications need to be stretched beyond this very limited perspective. Terrorism
may be seen as impacting on almost any industry as a result of its presence. One industry that may be overlooked, but can be key the helping defeat the potential
for terrorists to make many attacks, is the accounting and finance industry. For terrorism to take place there need to be available supporting funds. One approach to reduce the potential
for large attacks is through measures that control the flow of capital with the aim of preventing flow to terrorist organizations that inevitably requires money laundering to take place.
To consider the way that measures that are found within the accounting and finance industry can help to tackle terrorism a broad approach needs to be adopted looking not only
at the measures adopted but also considering why they may be effective and how the same aims may end up with very different results depending on the way they are
implemented and the underlying attitude regarding their implementation. To examine this the paper will start by looking at a number of crime theories that not only help to explain
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