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Books Discussing Violence
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Threat Assessment: A Risk Management Approach
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| Detailed “how to's” of threat assessment—from the
initial contact to the sharing of results!
This book examines the factors that human resource, security, legal,
and behavioral professionals need to understand in work violence and
threat situations that disrupt the working environment, revealing the
best ways to reduce risk and manage emergencies. It includes case
studies and hypothetical examples that show recommended practices in
action and provides detailed interviewing methods that can increase the
efficiency of current strategies. Helpful appendices provide sample
forms for identification cards, stay-away letters, workplace behavior
improvement plans for problem employees, questions for health care
providers, and announcements for employees regarding security changes.
An extensive bibliography points the way to other useful material on
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 Preventing
Workplace Violence: A Guide for Employers and Practitioners
From the Publisher
Preventing Workplace Violence provides a detailed look at how
traditional tools for occupational health and safety, discipline, and
employee relations are inadequate and inappropriate in responding to the
problem of workplace violence. In fact, the methods and approaches commonly
in use actually worsen the problem in some cases. This book summarizes the
most up-to-date learning in this area and offers practical guidance and
recommendations for assessing the risk of violence, steps for preventing
workplace violence, and a thorough discussion of employee rights and
employer responsibilities. Highly recommended for employers, managers, union
leaders, attorneys, consultants, and others who confront the issue of
violence in the workplace.
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Blindsided: A Manager's Guide to Catastrophic Incidents in the WorkPlace
From the Publisher
The world-renowned crisis consultant offers a comprehensive blueprint to
guiding a company through the aftermath of a disaster
The tragic events of September 11, 2001, put businesses nationwide on alert:
They now know they need to prepare for catastrophes. Bruce T. Blythe, a
leading consultant on corporate crises, offers managers a step-by-step guide
to a subject that has intimidated all too many managers, causing them to
postpone such preparation indefinitely.
Blythe guides the reader through a series of worst-case scenarios, from a
shooting rampage to a flash flood to a terrorist attack, offering handy
checklists and field-proven action tests for quick results. He instructs
managers and corporate executives on how best to prepare their teams for a
crisis and how to deal with customers, employees, and the media in its
aftermath. He explains tactics and preemptive measures that ensure:
* a quick return to work
* effective press management
* better morale
* fewer lawsuits down the line
Blindsided does more than secure the structure of a business. It
shows you how to rebuild the spirit of your employees, so that your business
can come back stronger than before.
Author Biography: Bruce T. Blythe is the founder and CEO of Crisis
Management International
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 Policing
Hatred: Law Enforcement,Civil Rights,and Hate Crime
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the Publisher
"Policing Hatred explores the intersection of race and law enforcement in
the controversial area of hate crime. The nation's attention has recently
been focused on high-profile hate crimes such as the dragging death of James
Byrd and the torture-murder of Matthew Shepard. This book calls attention to
the thousands of other individuals who each year are attacked because of
their race, religion, or sexual orientation. The study of hate crimes
challenges common assumptions regarding perpetrators and victims: most of
the accused tend to be white, while most of their victims are not." Policing
Hatred is an in-depth ethnographic study of how hate crime law works in
practice, from the perspective of those enforcing it. It examines the ways
in which the police handle bias crimes, and the social impact of those
efforts. Bell exposes the power that law enforcement personnel have to
influence the social environment by showing how they determine whether an
incident will be charged as a bias crime. |
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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society From
the Publisher
On Killing: the
Psychological cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
The twentieth
century, with its bloody world wars, revolutions, and genocides accounting
for hundreds of millions dead, would seem to prove that human beings are
incredibly vicious predators and that killing is as natural as eating. But
Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, a psychologist and U.S. Army Ranger,
demonstrates this is not the case. The good news, according to Grossman -
drawing on dozens of interviews, first-person reports, and historic
studies of combat, ranging from Frederick the Great's battles in the
eighteenth century through Vietnam - is that the vast majority of soldiers
are loath to kill. In World War II, for instance, only 15 to 25 percent of
combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles. The provocative news is
that modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have learned
how to overcome this reluctance. In Korea about 50 percent of combat
infantry were willing to shoot, and in Vietnam the figure rose to over 90
percent. The bad news is that by conditioning soldiers to overcome their
instinctive loathing of killing, we have drastically increased post-combat
stress - witness the devastated psychological state of our Vietnam vets as
compared with those from earlier wars. And the truly terrible news is that
contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the
army's conditioning techniques and - according to Grossman's controversial
thesis - is responsible for our rising rates of murder and violence,
particularly among the young. In the explosive last section of the book,
he argues that high-body-count movies, television violence (both news and
entertainment), and interactive point-and-shoot video games are
dangerously similar to the training programs that dehumanize the enemy,
desensitize soldiers to the psychological ramifications of killing, and
make pulling the trigger an automatic response.
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