NCJ Number
185902
Journal
Security Journal Volume: 13 Issue: 3 Dated: 2000 Pages: 1-91
Editor(s)
Vaughan Bowie,
Bonnie S. Fisher,
Martin Gill
Date Published
2000
Length
91 pages
Annotation
This special issue of the Security Journal focuses on violence in the workplace.
Abstract
The issue contains six articles that discuss the following key points: (1) how the concern with occupational violence has emerged and how it has been addressed over the last 30 years; (2) which particular occupational groups are most at risk of workplace violence; (3) what unions and employers have attempted to do to prevent and manage its occurrence; (4) how a worker's sex relates to experiencing a particular type of workplace aggression and violence; (5) whether bullying at work is a type of occupational violence, and how it should be dealt with; and (6) what new initiatives between workers, unions, employers, and government agencies are needed to deal more effectively with this issue. The issue also contains reviews of two works: Inside Job: Deep Under Cover as a Corporate Spy, and Good Practice in Working With Victims of Violence. The issue attempts to stimulate awareness and debate and to be the catalyst for action in various workplaces around the world to prevent and minimize workplace violence. Notes, figures, tables