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Record W4415497335 · doi:10.1177/07349149251378159

Harming the Administrative State: A Review of Physical Work Violence and Aggressions toward Public Servants

2025· article· en· W4415497335 on OpenAlex
Bruno Legrand Djontu, Jonas Tchassem-Pinlap, Étienne Charbonneau, Evans Pierre, Christian Doly, Frédéric Takuété-Lontsi, Gado Mayimbo

Why this work is in the frame

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenuePublic Administration Quarterly · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicWorkplace Violence and Bullying
Canadian institutionsÉcole Nationale d'Administration Publique
FundersCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsAggressionWorkplace violencePoison controlHuman factors and ergonomicsWork (physics)Empirical researchSuicide preventionFocus group

Abstract

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This review examines empirical research regarding workplace physical violence and aggression directed toward public servants. Practical recommendations to help prevent, intervene in, and control aggression and physical violence against public servants are presented, along with the analyses from which these recommendations stem are examined. The research methodology involved a comprehensive analysis of articles from 51 scholarly journals, encompassing publications in 2 languages without temporal restrictions. Our results are to the effect that most of the violence is perpetrated by users and citizens, not coworkers; few recommendations focus on the users and citizens who are violent. The recommendations fell into three categories: enhancing staff and management safety training for aggression prevention, investigating additional violence risk factors through research, and addressing discriminatory workplace practices that may trigger violence. Our research agenda outlines strategic directions for future investigation on physical work violence in the public sector.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.823
Threshold uncertainty score0.545

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.048
GPT teacher head0.373
Teacher spread0.324 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it