Workplace Violence Risk Versus General Violence Risk: Two Different Forensic Questions in New York

Stephan M. Carlson, MD, MBA, FAPA · Violence and Threat Risk

Asking whether an employee is "generally dangerous" answers the wrong question. Workplace violence is targeted violence, and the methods that estimate a person's broad propensity to be violent are not the methods that assess whether a specific subject is moving toward a specific act against a specific target. Two questions that look alike and are not A general violence risk opinion asks how likely a person is to behave violently toward anyone over some time horizon, given who they are and what they have done. A workplace violence opinion asks something narrower and more directional: is this subject on a pathway toward an intended, targeted act against an identifiable person or place. The fir

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