While gender and sexuality have been relatively neglected issues in organizational analysis, violence has been even further marginalized in research as an important issue in the study of organizations. The movement of organizational analysis is charted from agendered and implicitly gendered approaches to studies of gender and sexuality. The author shows that organizational analysis has shifted in recent years from apparent gender absence to a concern with gender and sexuality. Recognizing the importance of gender and sexuality in organizations has provided much of the groundwork for analyzing organizations from the perspective of violence. Moreover, research generally acknowledges that organizations are centrally concerned with power, domination, and control and that organizations have both explicit and implicit orientations to violence. A case study of organizational responses to violence is presented, based on interviews with 75 men and 130 followup contacts in England. The study found that organizational responses to violence involved a complex pattern and network of agencies. While police agencies and prisons defined and related to violence primarily in quasilegal terms, this trend was supplemented by their legitimized use of violence and their own hierarchical structures. Organizational responses to violence characteristically involved negotiation within a zone of uncertainty about what constitutes violence, why violence occurs, and what to do about violence. The extent to which organizations are distinct from other areas of social life in terms of violence and the extent to which violence is distinct from power in organizations are examined. 66 references, 3 notes, 1 table, and 1 figure