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Violence in the United States

Violence in the United States has reached epidemic proportions (Mason, 1993, pp. 1-3). Increasingly, violent behavior is being observed in the American workplace (McCune, 1994, pp. 52-57).

This research examines the phenomenon of work-related violence. An overview of the problem is followed by a discussion of possible explanations for such behavior.

The increase in the incidence of work-related violence in the United States is characterized by behaviors than range from telephonic threats to murder (Filipczak, 1993, pp. 39-43). Homicide is now the second most common cause of on-the-job deaths in the United States. Approximately 7,000 work-related homicides occur each year in the United States (Segal, 1994, pp. 33-38). More than 80 percent of work-related homicides result from gun-related injuries (Windau, 1994, pp. 58-59). A general profile of the perpetrator of violent work-related acts is a while male aged between 25 and 50 years old, who is a loner without a family, and who is under a high level of stress (Filipczak, 1993, pp. 39-43). A more specific profile narrows the age range to 30-to-40 years old, and adds the condition that the individual is entirely dependent financially on the individual's current employment (Schut, 1994, p. 125). Victims of work-related violence are predominantly males (83 percent) between the ages of 25 and 54 years old (Windau, 1994, pp. 58-59). The proportion of American workers who have been the victims of physical attacks in connection with their employment over the span of their career is estimated at 15 percent (Lipman, 1994, pp. 14-19).

Four-percent of the total homicides in the United States are work-related (Schut, 1994, p. 125). With respect to non fatal violent incidents, however, 16 percent of all such incidents in the United States are work-related. Almost one-million non fatal work-related violent incidents occur each year in the United States (Friedman, 1994, pp. 3-5). ...

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