Guide

Actors

For the heading ACTORS we adopt the SCP categorisation based upon environments-related behaviours instead of the common concepts of first-line practitioners and stakeholders, which is too vague and imprecise. Therefore we consider 4 different actors, who have different and variable weights in relation to the environments, their institutional function within the environment in the very specific CHEERS case and the leverage they can use:

Offenders and Suspects: They are those who have committed (or are suspected of committing) a particular crime and whose behaviours are useful to us in order to define analogous scenarios of prevention.

Handlers are in relations to offenders, they know the offender and can exert some control over his or her actions (parents, siblings, teachers, friends and spouses).

Capable Guardians are in relation to a target or a victim. They are people or institutions usually protecting their own belongings or those of family members, friends, neighbours and co-workers.

Place Manager is a person or an institution who have some responsibility for controlling behaviour in the specific location, such as the prison staff for a correctional institute, bus conductors in public ways or teachers in educational facilities. Among the ‘place managers’ we include also police, military and governments, as well as media, and internet companies and regulators (place manager of the new cyberspace), political parties and institutional movements, because their right or wrong decisions will have an impact on the push and pull dynamics of the incidents. For example, private internet companies are the place manager for their own virtual space. Because of the new shared security governance, they undoubtedly have specific powers and capabilities parallel to the postal police, intelligence and prosecutors, which are the public side of the ‘place management’ in this space.