Domestic violence and the workplace: do we know too much of nothing?

Issues surrounding domestic violence and the workplace are usually considered as independent phenomena. Our personal and work lives, however, are increasingly intermixed; factors affecting one aspect of our lives invariably will affect another. An all-too-common lead story found in our news media – ‘current spouse commits heinous acts against his loved one at work’ – has helped to garner widespread public concern in the United States that domestic violence and the workplace do inter-mingle, sometimes with a deadly outcome (for cross-national perspective, see Di Martino 2005).