Firing Back: The Growing Threat of Workplace Homicide | Semantic Scholar
@article{Fox1994FiringBT,
title={Firing Back: The Growing Threat of Workplace Homicide},
author={James Alan Fox and Jack Levin},
journal={The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science},
year={1994},
volume={536},
pages={16 - 30},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:144229494}
}Homicides committed against supervisors and coworkers by disgruntled employees have grown at a disturbing rate in the American workplace. Increasingly, embittered employees and ex-employees are seeking revenge through violence and murder for alleged mistreatment on the job. This article examines patterns and trends in available data and presents a theoretical profile of those who kill at the work site. It suggests that the typical homicide of employers and coworkers is committed by a…