Exam 14: Understanding Threat Assessment Methodologies and the Role of the Crime Analyst

The Four Prongs of the Assessment include Personality of the student, Family dynamics, School dynamics and the student's role in those dynamics and ______________.

The Catalyst Model explains aggression by suggesting that genetic predispositions can lead to an aggressive child temperament and, later, to an aggressive adult personality.

The threat assessment approach is based on examining direct, threatening statements and behavior, and then ______________.

Systematic procedures for conducting threat assessments and intervention strategies for school shootings owe their beginnings to the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC)

A multidisciplinary strategy, threat assessment includes defining the_______, as well as identifying the target or targets.

Threat assessment may examine the role of the victim in order to attempt to identify a specific reason particular victims were chosen

In order to carry out a threat assessment or to conduct a post-incident evaluation of a violent event, _______is necessary.

Since violent video games may not be a contributing factor in youth violence, Ferguson et al. in 2008 proposed a ______________to help explain youth aggressiveness.

An ideographic approach to a threat of violence involves a case study approach in which an individual, , is identified and studied.

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2002 reported that television violence might cause children and teenagers to become "immune" to the horror of violence and could cause them to gradually accept violence _______.

Typically, at least in the media, the investigation into the "whats" and the "whys" of a mass shooting uses the perspective of focusing on ______________exhibited by the perpetrator.

This chapter also focuses on profiles and risk assessments

The FBI in its school violence study in 2002 found common traits among those students prone to commit an act of violence; those traits included:

The threat assessment process described in Chapter 14 applies to any identified risk with the major objective being to neutralize the risk before an incident can occur

This model that came from the NCAVC symposium was called the ______________.

The first step on the Pathway to Targeted Violence is ______________.

The result of the NCAVC symposium was a model for ______________.

Early attempts to predict who might be school shooters usually provided profiles and risk assessments

Elson and Ferguson in 2014 reported on another study about violent video games and reported that although youth playing violent video games was going up, youth violence was ______________.

The threat assessment approach is considered to be more innovative and advanced than general risk assessments