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

In 2000, several organizations, including the Secret Service and the FBI, collaborated to produce a report on risk factors associated with the perpetrators in 9 school shooting case studies

The Catalyst Model states that the environment does not cause aggressive behavior, but may only ______________.

The Four-Pronged Assessment is only used when an unlikely threat has been received related to a school shooting

A study, carried out by professors Christopher Ferguson and Cheryl Olson, aimed to determine conclusively whether there was a link between violent video games and violent behaviour, found ______________between violence in society and violent video games.

A checklist of warning signs to help detect a school shooter has important drawbacks; one of those drawbacks is the profile approach can unfairly label many nonviolent students as potentially dangerous individuals and the other is that______________ .

The Catalyst Model suggests that a genetic predisposition can lead to an aggressive child temperament and, later, to an ______________.

The FBI in its school violence study of 2000 found no common traits among those students prone to commit an act of violence

A grievance is highly personal and it may be

The biopsychosocial model is a holistic investigation that seeks to obtain a _______ of the person of concern.

The Threat Assessment Strategy may examine the role of the ______________ in order to attempt to identify a specific reason particular victim(s) were chosen.

The prediction of future violence remains a necessity in the U.S. justice and mental health systems

The Pathway to Targeted Violence is made up of ______________ steps.

Early attempts to predict who might be school shooters were likely to fall in the categories of _______.

Most people who make a threat are _______.

Examining risk factors from both inside and outside of the school environment is the main focus of the threat assessment approach which in this course is called: _______.

Typically, at least in the media, the investigation into the "whats" & the "whys" of a mass shooting tends to focus on a psychoanalysis of the shooter.