what is harassment?

Answer 1

Ment to do what

Answer 2

Harassment refers to a wide spectrum of offensive behavior. When the term is used in a legal sense it refers to behaviors that are found threatening or disturbing, and beyond those that are sanctioned by society. In societies which support free speech, only the more repetitive, persistent and untruthful types of speech qualify legally as harassment. Sexual harassment refers to persistent and unwanted sexual advances, typically in the workplace, where the consequences of refusing are potentially very disadvantaging to the victim.

[edit] Types of harassments
There are a number of harassments that fall into this category.

Bullying
Harassment that can occur on the playground, school, in the workforce or any other place. Usually physical and psychological harassing behavior perpetrated against an individual, by one or more persons.
Gang Stalking
This is a psychological attack that can completely destroy a person's life while leaving little or no trace to identify the perpetrators. It's a combination of organized harassment and mobbing except it takes place outside in the community, and targets are stalked and harassed 24/7 by citizen gangs.
Psychological harassment
This is humiliating or abusive behavior that lowers a person’s self-esteem or causes them torment. This can take the form of verbal comments, actions or gestures. Falling into this category are harassment's such as workplace mobbing, and gang stalking which is a form of community mobbing and organized stalking combined.
Racial harassment
The targeting of an individual because of their race or ethnicity. The harassment's include words, deeds, and actions, that are specifically designed to make the target feel degraded due to their race of origin or ethnicity.
Religious harassment
Verbal, psychological or physical harassment's used against targets because they choose to practice a specific religion.
Sexual harassment
Harassment that can happen anywhere but is most common in the workplace, and schools. It involves unwanted and unwelcome, words, deeds, actions, gestures, symbols, or behaviors of a sexual nature that make the target feel uncomfortable. Gender and sexual orientation harassment fall into this family.
Stalking
The unauthorized following and surveillance of an individual, to the extent that the persons privacy is unacceptably intruded upon, and the victim fears for their safety.
Street harassment
This is harassment that happens out in public, or while walking down the street. Involves lewd and unwelcome words, deeds and actions.

Answer 3

The term “unlawful harassment” first evolved in the context of sexual harassment. EEOC guidelines define sexual harassment as “Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when:

• Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual’s employment;

• Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment decisions affecting such individual; or

• Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment.”

Much of this definition applies most specifically to “quid pro quo” sexual harassment, referencing situations where a victim is, against his or her wishes, expected to provide sexual favors in order to receive favorable workplace treatment or face unfavorable workplace treatment if he or she refuses. The most prevalent unlawful workplace harassment complaint is described in the last bullet point of the definition. This is “hostile work environment” harassment, which as currently applied by the EEOC, can be based, not only upon sex, but also on race, national origin, religion, color, age or disability. One critical point with all types of unlawful harassment is that the conduct is unwelcome. Unwelcomeness is a factor that can potentially apply in seemingly ambiguous circumstances such as when sexual activity appears on its face to be consensual, when there is no deliberate intent to antagonize, or when the complaining person is affected by, but not the target of, the offensive behavior.

To help employers comply with laws addressing harassment, the EEOC has issued a number of guidelines—all of which are accessible from local EEOC offices and the agency’s Web site. These publications and various court rulings offer some useful answers to employer questions that have arisen over the years

Answer 4

Ok suppose you are a young man and an elder woman superior keeps getting you into sexually akward, or intimidating situations, that you do not want, then she is harassing you.
The above, may I say is more common than you think.

Answer 5

harass |həˈras; ˈharəs| verb [ trans. ] subject to aggressive pressure or intimidation : a warning to men harassing girls at work. • make repeated small-scale attacks on (an enemy) : the squadron's task was to harass the retreating enemy forces. • [as adj. ] ( harassed) feeling or looking strained by having too many demands made on one.

Answer 6

harassement is when some one bosses you around or is constantly telling you what to do or to run after them

Answer 7

Unwanted attention

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Answer 8

When you are constantly being annoyed by another person, even though you have asked them to stop or ignored them.

Answer 9

offensive behaviour like threats and bullying.

Answer 10

anything that is unwanted.