Toward the Scientific and Professional Assessment of Violence Potentialin the Workplace

Workplace violence is becoming a topic of rising importance. Yet, to date, it has been little researched. While it is true that homicides in the workplace are rare, levels of aggressivity, harassment, intimidation, physical and sexual assaultiveness, and incivility easily surpass levels sufficient to dismiss arguments that the topic is unamenable to serious study because of “low base rates.” As eventually happened with the broader …