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Title: Workplace Homicides: Reconsidering the Role of Firearms

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: The number of fatal, intentional workplace shootings rose 15% in 2015 from 2014. Workplace homicides remain a leading cause of occupational death, fourth among males and second among females. Workplaces that allow employees to carry a firearm are at 5-times greater odds of having a workplace homicide compared to workplaces that do not. Prevention efforts largely focus on preventing robbery-motivated crimes, which constitute between 55% to 60% of deaths each year. Workplace homicides are largely a firearms issue, as perpetrators use firearms in nearly 80% of all deaths. There is a need to understand firearm exposure at work, laws that restrict employers’ ability to govern firearm exposure at work, and how state laws designed to affect firearm exposure impact firearm-related workplace homicides. This dissertation contains six chapters. Chapter one provides an introduction to . . .

Url: https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/61053

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Authors: Doucette, Mitchell, L

Institution: Johns Hopkins University

Department: Social Science

Advisor: Shannon Frattaroli

Degree: PhD

Publisher Location: Baltimore, Maryland

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Topics: Crime and Deviance, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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