Air Rage
What is a Air Rage?
For the Basic information, go to Air Rage!

Air Rage  is the International Transport Worker's Federation (itf) 's Airline Division's Air Rage Campaign page.
    This page is useful for basic information on Air Rage.
    It contains an Air Rage definition, examples, recent figures, and useful other online resources.  See summaries below.

Definition of Air Rage

      According to ift (international transport worker's federation), air rage is a disruptive behavior ranges from non-compliance with safety instructions through to actions amounting to verbal harassment or physical assault directed at staff, passengers or the aircraft.
    Aggression in  an aircraft is extremely DANGEROUS.
 

Recent examples of air rage incidents

                A cabin crew member of a British aircraft flying from London to Malaga in October 1998 needed 18 stitches in her arm and back after a male passenger smashed a bottle of vodka over her head and raked her body with the jagged glass.

                A passenger grabbed the hair of a female check in clerk in Delhi airport and repeatedly banged her head on the counter.

                A man attacked the pilot of a Boeing 707 en route from the Canary Islands to Berlin in March this year. He was overpowered by crew members and four passengers before the plane landed safely.

Air Rage in Figures
    According to the US Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS), a confidential reporting system for US airline crews, unruly passenger reports have increased by around 800 per cent. In 1997, there were 66 reported incidents. In 1999, there were 534.

Other Online Resources
 
 

Addressing the problems of Air Rage...
Go to The Skyrage Foundation!

    The skyrage Foundation aims at reducing in-flight disruption and violence toward crew members and passengers.
    By distributing information, the Skyrage Foundation encourages people to make own decision about the problem and providing assistance to victims of in-flight violence.

Addressed problems
        Justification:  Guidelines on the questions of authority need to be formulated.
        Prosecution:  Formal protocols for prosecutors and judges are need to be established.
        Enforcement:  All complains need to be addressed by law enforcement.
        Alcohol:  Standards of alcohol levels for passengers are needed.
        Information:  Passengers are need to be informed the consequence of disruptive behavior.
        Reaction:  Quick response to passenger or crew member's injury is strongly suggested.
        Addenda:  Further input and suggestions.

 The Skyrage Foundation also provides: 
   The Skyrage Newsletter
   Links to Previous Incidents
   Links to Research Projects and Information
   Skyrage Luggage Tags
   Airline Links
 
 

Need more Information?
Go to Air Rage Information Resources!
    Air Rage Information Resources provides some useful online resources, books, noteworthy events from TheSmokingGun.com, organizations, and media coverage, all about AIr Rage.
    Also check out its main page... AirSafe.com for useful information for the traveling public.
    Links to:  Passenger issues, Personal safety, Data analysis, Communications, Selected accidents, Popular aircraft, Top airlines, and Fatal Airline Events.
 
 

Sports Rage

  Sports Rage is also called Parental Rage.  Parents of competitive sports players often displays uncivil behaviors toward coaches, officials, or other players.  It is a growing phenomenon and can even cause death.

What is happening around sports players?
Go To "Sports Violence and Other Problems"!!
  This page belongs to Hockey Coaching Home Page that literally talk about Hockey.  Hockey is a very rough and competitive sports.   The editor of this page, Often, doesn't give us any information about himself or aim of this page, but clearly concerns about problematic behaviors related to sports.  He put 24 articles that are about sports related problematic behaviors.  Rage can be aimed anybody by anybody around the field!
 

Why do parents rage, and what can be done?
Go to "PARENTAL RAGE" IN CHILDREN'S SPORTS!!
  "Parental Rage" in Children's Sports starts discussion by giving you a detailed story on rage of 10 years old Ice hockey player's father, Junta.  He made the other player's father, Costin, fall into a coma because Costin's son almost break his son's nose.  Why parents rage?  This page suggests 3 possibilities; vicarious experience by parents, money, or difficulty in controlling themselves.  As a solution for this problem, education programs are recommended.  At the end, the links for other web sites are listed.
 
 

Computer Rage
  Computer is a indispensable tool for us.  At a workplace, at home, at school, we use computers everyday.  But it also can create a disaster, such as freeze and loss of data.  We all experience the frustration toward computers.  Some people react in an extreme way... they rage.

How do people react when they have a trouble with computer?
Go to Rage against the machine!
    We rage against computer, printer, software and so on.  People even do something like this.... "picking up their computer and hurling it across the office".  How do people react to computer problems?  Frustration is the top reaction, 52%, and the top extreme reaction is swear at computer or scream that occupies 23%.  For more information, go to "What the research says about our computer rage".

Take it easy... no hustle!
Go to "Computer Rage"!!
  OK, everybody get mad at their computers.  But there aren't much things we can do to the machines.  Any violent behavior doesn't solve the computer problems.  This page is very sympathetic to your computer rage.  It very briefly talks about computer rage, printer rage, software rage, error rage, and gives you some tips for trouble shooting.
 
 
 

Take it easy... no hustle!
Go to "Computer Rage"!!
  OK, everybody get mad at their computers.  But there aren't much things we can do to the machines.  Any violent behavior doesn't solve the computer problems.  This page is very sympathetic to your computer rage.  It very briefly talks about computer rage, printer rage, software rage, error rage, and gives you some tips for trouble shooting.
 
 

Workplace Rage
Go to "AFSCME Health and Safety Fact Sheet - Workplace VIolence"

Index:  Introduction
             What is Workplace VIolence
             Effects of VIolence
             Causes of Violence
             Risk Factors
             Preventing violence
             Post-incident Procedures
             Taking Action

Summary
    AFSCME (American Federation State County and Municipal Employees) offers simple but informative fact sheet of workplace violence.  Workplace violence is growing problem for nation-wide workers... it often result in serious physical and psychological damages including PTSD.  According to the Department of Justice, one million on individuals become victims of violent crime each year while working or on duty.  Rate is higher for government employees.  Workplace violence is predictable so the employers are responsible for taking action for prevention including Union action and OSHA.
 

For more information, go to "Workplace Violence"!!
    Index:  Overview
                Media Guide
                Speaking Engagements
                TRAINING!
                Prevention Strategies
                Warning Signs
                Feature Articles
                Clientele List
                Contributing Factors
                Testimonials
                About the trainer 

    Links:  The problem
                The solution
                National Media Articles on Workplace VIolence
                Web sites to browse
                A tribute to Human Resource Professionals
                Workplace conflict around the world

Summary
    The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reported that employees murdered over 100 bosses and co-workers in 1977.  Knowledge of workplace violence is crucial.  We need to be aware of this problem in order to prevent it.
Here are some factors for workplace violence:
A weak or non-existent policy against all forms of violence in the workplace
       No mechanism for reporting violent or threatening behavior
       Failure to take immediate action against those who have threatened or committed acts of workplace violence
       No clearly defined rules of conduct
       Failure to educate managers, supervisors and employees in:
              Workplace violence awareness
              Early warning signs ("individual" and "organizational")
              Emergency procedures
              Hostage survival
              Workplace violence reporting and prevention measures
       Negligence in the hiring, training, supervision, discipline and retention of employees
       No in-house employee support systems
       Inadequate physical security
       Maintaining an atmosphere of intolerance or indignity
       And many more

    Seminar and workshop is suggested and offered.  To check out seminars, go to "Workplace Violence-TRAINING!".

    This Home page covers a large amount of information on workplace violence and encourage people to become aware of the problem.  It covers almost everything about workplace violence.  This site is helpful to know about  address the problem, what work violence is, who is involved and what to do for prevention.  It also has a tons of links to the web sites for:  workplace violence addressed problems, for solutions,  National Media articles, web sites to browse, how to deal with the problem for human resource professionals, and workplace conflict around the world.
 
 

Internet Rage
Computer and workplace related rage is an internet rage.
Go to "Internet causes workplace rage"
  This is the article from ABC News Online.  It reports that a survey found that 16.1 % of employees experience internet rage.  The major cause is that the time taken to download information.

Go to "Internet rage sweeps UK" for another article about internet rage.
  This article reports the result of the study conducted by esseworld.com.   The increasing number of internet users are getting frustrated at internet mainly for the response time on the internet.  It reports much higher number (90%) of people who experiences internet rage than above article.
 

Go to "Internet Rage"
  This home page talks about another problem besides the frustration at the time taken for internet research.  It suggests that there are two most common types of Online rage related to chat room backbiting and slander of existing home page by stealing photos and layout.

Internet rage is a new increasing phenomenon among internet users.  There are not many web sites suggesting a solutions for internet rage.  But as the time people spend online increase, people are more frustrated and more likely to rage.  Their rage often lead workplace violence and computer rage.  This is the field we need to explore further more.
 
 

Animal Rage

We concern Animal abuse because it often leads to more serious crime.  Below are web sites for some of the issues that are related to animal abuse.
Go to "Domestic VIolence and Cruelty to Animals"!
  This study is conducted by Frank Ascione, the Department of Psychology at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.  He examines animal maltreatment in a sample of women seeking shelter from domestic violence.  He interviews 38 women seeking in-house service  by using Battered Partners Shelter Survey.  This study shows that 74 % of those women reported current pet ownership.  71 % of the women reported that their male partner had threatened to hurt or kill, or actually did, and 32% of women who have children reported that their children hurt or killed their pets.
  Although the diversity of samples of this study is quite limited (within one shelter in Utah), the result shows clear connection between domestic violence and animal abuse.

For more detailed stories of abuse, go to "Animals Escaping Domestic Violence"!.
  This page also talks about domestic violence and animal abuse.  Below is one of the stories of domestic violence.
                                           Just six weeks into their marriage, Tamara Barnes's husband began drinking heavily,
                                          shouting at her for no reason and abusing her cats. He broke one cat's leg and burned its
                                          paws. One day he wrapped up one of the cats with duct tape.
                                          "He was taped up like a football," Barnes says. "I was completely freaked out. I told him I
                                          was going to call the police. He said, 'Go ahead and call them. I'll kill this cat if I want to,
                                          and I can kill you, too.' "
    The problem when abused women decide to leave home for their safety is that not many shelter accept their pets.  Although those women leave their house without pet, they worry about the pets so much.  The Humane Society appeal to the shelters to deal with this problem with them.
 

For nation-wide antiviolence campaign, go to First Strike!!
  The Humane Society launched the First Strike campaign to increase public and professional awareness of the connection between animal cruelty and human violence and to encourage professionals involved in antiviolenve efforts to work together.  It introduces some of the case studies with the pictures of abusers. For prevention and intervention, the First Strike promotes some local programs and workshops.  We also can see some short videos on campaign and abused animals.
 

For state law for animal abuse, go to  "Animal Abuse - misdemeanor or felony".
 

Go to "Animal Cruelty Actionline"!!
  ALDF (Animal Legal Defense Fund) is an animal right law organization working to defend animals from abuse.  They suggest the link between acts of animal cruelty and crimes against people.  For example, when 15 year old Kip Kinkel opened fire on his Springfield, Oregon classmates last year, killing one classmate and injuring 23 others, it was not the first time he had killed. Kinkel was known for cutting off the heads of cats and mounting them on sticks.  You can take action for animal abuse by contacting ALDF.  Although those cases are often reported, it haven't taken seriously.  ALDF is working to break this circle.
    Check out some other related links: HSUS FirstStrike Campaign, Animal's Hope Petition Team, and Animal Alert News.

Go to "IDA Links to other interesting Web sites"
    There are tons of web sites for animal abuse.  To find more about animal abuse, click here.  This page offers the list of organizations related to animal abuse.

Neighbor Rage
The main Neighborhood related problem is the noise such as dog's barking, loud music, and so on.
How does noise effect on people?

To find out, go to "Noise and Its Effects"!!
   This study is conducted by Dr. Suter who is a conference consultant of Administrative Conference of the United States.  It presents the effects of noise, defined as unwanted sound, on people.  It determines the noise sources; Road traffic noise, aircraft noise, noise from railroads, construction noise, noise in industry, noise in buildings and noise from consumer products.  Noise level is increasing along with increased density of population.  Excessive exposure to noise may result in hearing loss, interfering the communication, disturb sleep, effects on performance, behavior and health, and cause annoyance.  As a conclusion, noise has significant stress related effects on people.

What can we do to noisy neighbors?
Go to "How to get neighbors to turn down the noise"!
    This page suggest what to do to your noisy neighbors.  It is adapted from neighbor law.  Suggestions are; 1. Talk to your neighbor.  2. Get a copy of your local ordinance.  3. Warn your neighbor in writing.  4. Suggest mediations.  5. Call the police.  6. Sue for nuisance.  7. If you are a tenant.
 
 

Phone Rage
When people call you to sell something and don't let you get off, what would you ?

Go to "Antitelemarketer.com"!
  This humorous web site teaches you the various ways of coping with insistent phone call from telemarketer such as some example of script of tele-tormenting techniques, methods, legal methods, facts sheet, telemarketer's objective and so on.  It is interesting and easy to read but still very informative.  If you are suffered from telemarketers, this is the page to check out for repelling them.

 Tormenting: Here are some examples of conversation you want to carry when you receive a call from telemarketer.
 Methods: What you can do to stop junk calls are here.  It introduces "Do not call policy" (FTC law), junk call/mail
                   removal service, phone hardware/devices for thwart callers, about DMA's telephone preference list, revers
                   calling, etc.  Each methods are examined so you can choose the best way you should do.
 Facts:  Some facts to know about telemarketing such as....
                                           Telemarketing is a $400 billion a year business.
                                           Americans lose $40 billion a year to fraudulent telemarketers.
                                           The average American gets called 2 to 3 times per day by a telemarketer.
                                           92% of the adults in the United States have reported receiving fraudulent telephone offers
                                           And MORE!!

Do you know about telemarketing fraud? 
Go to Telemarketing Fraud by U.S. Department of Justice!
  Telemarketing is not only annoying but also harmful because fraudulent use numerous false and misleading statement in order to persuade you.  There are schemes telemarketers operate; charity schemes, credit-card schemes, lottery schemes, prize-promotion schemes, recovery room schemes, and rip-and-tear schemes are most commonly used.  For details of each schemes, click here.   They sound just like people you usually talk on the phone, but they are trained to convince people to send them money. Click here to listen fraudulent telemarketer's taped conversation.  The Department of Justice is taking actions; those are law enforcement and public education and prevention.  Lastly, the Department of Justice suggest what to do about telemarketing fraud on a daily basis.
 
 

Police Rage
Go to "Shielded from Justice" for report on police brutality!
  Police brutality is a serious human right violation.  This report examines the brutality cases in fourteen large cities in the U.S.  As the contributing factors, political considerations, race, public access to information, filing complaints, and external review are discussed.  The brutality were persistent in all of cities examined, and also they are slow to act; they neglect to take appropriate measures promptly.  Those cities also share a lack of effective public accountability and transparency, a persistent failure to investigate and punish "problem" officers, and a variety of obstacles to achieving justice.  Recommendations are 1. Federal aid should go only to those state and local police departments that can show they are taking concrete steps to curb police abuse.  2. Creating and strengthening civilian review agencies, putting warning systems, creating a special prosecutor's office to pursue cases against officers accused of criminal conduct.  3. International human rights conference should be implemented.  You can take actions by writing to city government, state legislators and/or U.S. Representative or Senators.
 

Go to "Use of force by police: overview of national and local data" by U.S. Department of Justice.
    ..."The report provides an overview of the state of research
     knowledge about police use of force, updates progress on the national BJS
    Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS) and the database project of the
    International Association of Chiefs of Police, provides the latest findings
    from NIJ-supported use-of-force research projects in several local
    jurisdictions, and offers a researcher's suggestions for a future research
    agenda on police use of force, with special attention given to issues of
    excessive force..."

Summary of each chapter:
                      1.What We Know About Police Use of Force by Kenneth Adams
                      2.Revising and Fielding the Police-Public Contact Survey by Lawrence A.
                         Greenfeld, Patrick A. Langan, and Steven K. Smith
                      3.IACP National Database Project on Police Use of Force by Mark A. Henriquez
                      4.Measuring the Amount of Force Used By and Against the Police in Six
                         Jurisdictions by Joel H. Garner and Christopher D. Maxwell
                      5.The Force Factor: Measuring and Assessing Police Use of Force and Suspect
                         Resistance by Geoffrey P. Alpert and Roger G. Dunham
                      6.A Research Agenda on Police Use of Force by Kenneth Adams
 
 

Surf Rage
Go to 'The Stain on the Soul of Surfing"!
    This page is written by Glenn Hening who started the Surfrider Foundation.  Experienced surfer writes about his surf rage experiences and show his concerns.  This page is well worth reading to non-surfers as well as surfers.
    Surf Rage including ruthless, violence and arrogance among surfers is a stain on the soul of surfing.  He introduces some surf rage stories, and analyze that ego, low self-esteem, selfishness, or professional greed are the reason for surf rage.  He says that surfing is completely personal sports and it makes aggression and arrogance control us.  He compare the behavior of shark and surfers.  As sharks do, surfer seems to oscillates between wondrous of ocean and brutal turf tactics.  Surfers with bad attitudes are twisted into a joy-less, anxiety-driven fear of outsiders.  Localism has been declining due to the new laws and dilution of localism.  "Be nice, share a wave, give a smile, say Hi"... that's how surfers who really have surfing in their heart and soul behave.

For articles on Surf Rage...
Go to "Surf rage is by no means new wave"
    After world champion Nat Young was shattered face pulped and purple, the topic of surf rage arose.  Here is a rule; the person closest to the breaking part of the wave, or the surfer first to his feet, has the right of way.
And "Surf rage his the beach as California loses its cool... could become newest HATE CRIME"
    Surf rage became a serious problem.  Law makers are considering adding surf rage to a list of federal hate crimes.