Research and Public Policy Series
No. 22: Violence in the workplace
Santina Perrone
ISBN 0 642 24132 5 ; ISSN 1326-6004
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1999
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Abstract
As in any other environment, individuals at work are at risk of physical attack, but employees may also be subjected to threats, bullying, harassment and other psychological harms. Whilst workplace violence is now being recognised as a serious issue, it remains an ambiguous term and an under researched problem. This report provides an overview of fatal and non fatal violence in Australian workplaces and identifies research and policy options for its prevention and control.
This project was funded by the Crime Prevention Branch of the Criminal Justice Division, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department.
Contents
- Title, foreword and acknowledgments (PDF 22kB)
- Contents (PDF 20kB)
- Abbreviations (PDF 16kB)
- Executive summary (PDF 17kB)
- Chapter 1 : Introduction (PDF 21kB)
- Chapter 2 : Rationale for addressing workplace violence (PDF 34kB)
- Chapter 3 : Project aims (PDF 17kB)
- Chapter 4 : Exploring the parameters of workplace violence: conceptual uncertainties (PDF 41kB)
- Chapter 5 : Enumerating workplace violence (PDF 85kB)
- Chapter 6 : Profiling occupational victimisation: scenarios of violence (PDF 22kB)
- Chapter 7 : Searching for answers: prevailing causal explanations (PDF 55kB)
- Chapter 8 : Countering workplace violence: proactive and reactive strategies (PDF 68kB)
- Chapter 9 : Conclusions (PDF 19kB)
- Chapter 10 : Recommendations : towards the development of a prospective research and action agenda (PDF 40kB)
- References (PDF 64kB)