Violence in School and In the Workplace

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Violent behavior at work and at school is exhibited in a wide-range of abusive behavior, a field that varies from mild forms of teasing to verbal abuse to long-standing persecution to deadly violence itself. Work-related slayings have steadily ranked amongst the highest causes of on-the-job deaths in the United States since 1992. Workers in certain occupational classes appear as amplified threats of violence, including schoolteachers. While faculty aggression has been recognized as a challenge among students, little is understood about violence in opposition to teachers. Several Legislative acts such as the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), Victims of Crime Act (VOCA), Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA), and a variety of Hate Crime Laws begin to tackle the topic of hostility in our society, but further preemptive measures to stop aggression is necessary. Violence is considered a premeditated behavior: Social customs and skills are taught and fortified by influential individuals, the better the chance of eliminating emotional and physical violence from the workplace and schools.

Kelly Grandchamp (2012) states perpetrators of violence and aggression have different cognition and value systems. Put another way, violent and nonviolent people think differently. Perpetrators of violence perceive hostile intent even when there may be none and their social value systems do not constrain them from hurting others. They act in covert and overt ways to exact revenge. Power and locus of control are critical factors in the perpetrators’ reactions and frustration facilitates violence and aggression.

Let’s consider the following; victims of violence more often than not experience, beliefs that they can control events ...

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...odic orientation and ongoing training of the school and workplace communities.

Conclusion

According to Grandchamp (2012), domestic violence is no longer a private matter, but one of public and corporate concern. Its toll on the workplace, school and culture at large is significant (p. 69).

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