Firing Back
The Growing Threat of Workplace Homicide
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 9768944 |
|---|---|
| Autores | James Alan Fox (0000-0002-7406-7895, autor correspondente), Jack Levin (0000-0003-0965-0790) |
| Ano | 1994 |
| Volume | 536 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 16-30 |
| Data de publicação | 1994-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716294536001002 |
| OpenAlex | W2055345477 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 15 |
| Referências citadas | 3 |
Homicides committed against supervisors and coworkers by disgruntled employees have grown at a disturbing rate in the American workplace. Increasingly, embittered employees and ex-employees are seeking revenge through violence and murder for alleged mistreatment on the job. This article examines patterns and trends in available data and presents a theoretical profile of those who kill at the work site. It suggests that the typical homicide of employers and coworkers is committed by a disgruntled, white, middle-aged male who faces termination or who has recently been fired. Recommendations are advanced for how employers might better respond to problem employees and to homicidal threats at the workplace. These include prevention strategies, such as giving higher priority to the role of human resources, affording employees due process protection against unfair terminations, and changing the importance attached to the meaning of work in people's lives
Criminology · Environmental health · Homicide · Meaning (existential · Poison control · Political science · Public relations · Work (physics · Workplace violence · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Engineering · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment · Workplace Violence and Bullying
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The psychology of suicide-murder and the death penalty
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Comparative Systems of Unjust Dismissal
Are America’s public mass shooters unique? A comparative analysis of offenders in the United States and other countries
American uniqueness revisited
Workplace as Combat Zone
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Mass Murder at School and Cumulative Strain
Don't Name Them, Don't Show Them, But Report Everything Else
| Obras citantes distintas | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 0,47 |
| Intervalo de citações | 1994 - 2025 (32) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 15 |