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

A multifaceted approach utilizes investigative techniques that aid in identification, assessment and management of the ______________who proclaimed the threat.

A ______________approach provides the most reliability in determining the nature and degree of risk.

The Four-Pronged Assessment is only used when a ______________ related to a school shooting.

In 1999, the NCAVC held a symposium on school shootings in Leesburg, Virginia and this symposium examined ______________.

Ferguson and his colleagues in the Catalyst Model suggest that it is environmental factors that may act as catalysts leading to aggressive actions for an individual who has ______________.

Findings of researchers tend to ______________the popular belief that playing violent video games increased aggression, particularly for those young people with mental health problems.

In 2000, the Secret Service, the National Association of School Psychologists, the FBI, the National School Safety Center and the American Psychological Association, collaborated to produce a report on ______________associated with the perpetrators in 9 school shooting case studies.

If the individual appears to have serious problems in the majority of the four prongs of the assessment, then the threat should be taken seriously and ______________.

Systematic procedures for conducting threat assessments and intervention strategies for school shootings owe their beginnings to the _______.

Research has indicated that those who engage in violence at school were influenced to bring a weapon to school by factors unrelated to school issues.

In her monograph entitled "The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective," Mary Ellen O'Toole, recommends that schools not only appoint a threat assessment coordinator, but also establish a ______________ .

The Threat Assessment is a process in which an identified threat is examined from only only point of view

A threat assessment approach does not focus on predicting future acts of violence; instead it focuses on ______________.

The task of threat assessment incorporates the services of law enforcement and ______________.

The assessment of the student who has issued a threat is based on the _______ known about the student in four major areas.

Targeted violence predatory, intended violence that is not ______________ .

In an article published in the Journal of Communication (2014), Ferguson and Olson found no positive link between violence in society and violent video games

All threat messages do become risk factors and could strongly suggest that an individual is ______________ .

Fundamentally, the chapter asks the question: Can identifying risk factors and early warning signs related to violence reduce the number of violent acts that take place at schools, businesses or entertainment venues

Some experts contend that threat assessment is not a final product, but the beginning of the______________.