Dr. Richard T. Braley

Associate Dean

College of Education

Texas A&M University - Kingsville, Texas

Workplace Violence
Social and Legal Definitions

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Social Definitions


Violence
1.
Physical Force used to Injure or Abuse
2.
Intense, Turbulent or Furious, often destructive, Action
3.
Vehement Feeling

NO PHYSICAL CONTACT IS NECESSARY

Workplace
A location where one exerts strength or faculties to do or perform something for financial compensation.
Where a person is accountable for their deeds to a supervisor or a board of directors.

Violence in the Workplace
Vehement Feeling or Destructive Physical Force that Injures or Abuses another Person


Legal Definitions

Violence
1.
Unjust or unwanted exercise of force
2.
Physical force unlawfully exercised
3.
"Force" employed against

a. Common Right

b.
The Law

c.
Public Liberty

Violent, Criminal, Offenses
Crimes characterized by extreme physical force

Murder

Forcible Rape

Assault

Battery

Violence in the Workplace
Criminal Behavior perpetrated against people at a Workplace

Contact Dr. Braley for a Violence Seminar.

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