'Violence At Work: Causes Patterns and Prevention' edited by Martin Gill, Bonnie Fisher, Vaughan Bowie
'Violence at Work: Causes Patterns and Prevention'
edited by Martin Gill, Bonnie Fisher, Vaughan Bowie (William Publishing, UK)
From the back cover of the book:
Workplace violence has emerged as a rapidly growing concern in today’s interdependent political economy, and increasing attention is being paid to the phenomenon by business, industry, health and welfare services and the academic world: the central tasks are to identify its causes, and to devise strategies to both prevent and counter it. In this book a distinguished international team of contributors, composed of both academics and practitioners, identify and address the key issues, presenting the results and lessons to be learned from a range of case studies in the USA, Canada, Britain and Australia.
Chapters of the book address issues of definitions and typologies of violence; identify the range of risk factors involved; explore the links between lifestyles and workplace violence; examine the motivations of perpetrators of workplace violence, and gender differences in victimization patterns; and look at the way organizations cope with workplace violence, the implications of workplace violence for human resource managers, trade unions and others involved in prevention and support programmes, and the inadequacies of management training.
Violence at Work reviews the earlier literature on workplace violence, identifying and assessing key trends and patterns of violence at work, and reapplying traditional theories of victimization and approaches to prevention, security and safety. Particular attention is paid to studies which reflect innovative practice in prevention strategies, and in assessing informal frameworks which have been developed in response.
Overall this book provides an authoritative foundation from which to develop ways of better explaining, predicting, understanding and preventing workplace violence, and will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in the subject.
The Editors:
Martin Gill is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Scarman Centre at the University of Leicester, and also co-edits (with Bonnie Fisher) the Security Journal; Bonnie Fisher is Associate Professor in the Division of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, a senior research fellow at the Criminal Justice Centre, and has carried out research on gender issues and workplace violence; Vaughan Bowie is lecturer at the University of Western Sydney in Australia, has carried out both research and training in the prevention of workplace violence, and is the author of Coping with Violence: a guide for human services.
