International Handbook of Threat Assessment

Contents; Foreword by Robert Fein and Bryan Vossekuil; About the Editors; Contributors; Part I. Threat Assessment - Foundations ; 1. Threat Assessment and Threat Management; J. Reid Meloy, Stephen Hart, and Jens Hoffmann; ; 2. Explicit Threats of Violence; Lisa J. Warren, Paul E. Mullen, and Troy E. McEwan ; 3. Warning Behaviors and Their Configurations across Various Domains of Targeted Violence; J. Reid Meloy, Jens Hoffmann, Karoline Roshdi, Justine Glaz-Ocik, and Angela Guldimann; 4. Collecting and Assessing Information for Threat Assessment; Bram B. Van der Meer and Margaret L. Diekhuis; 5. Legal Issues in Threat Management; Kris Mohandie and Jens Hoffmann; Part II. Threat Assessment - Fields of Practice ; 6. Workplace Targeted Violence: Threat Assessment Incorporating a Structured Professional Judgment Guide; Stephen G. White; 7. Threat Assessment and Management in Higher Education: Enhancing the Standard of Care in the Academy; Eugene R. D. Deisinger, Marisa R. Randazzo, and Jeffrey J. Nolan; 8. Threat Assessment in Schools; Kris Mohandie; 9. Mass Casualty Homicides on Elementary School Campuses: Threat Management; Lessons Learned from Bath, Michigan to Newtown, Connecticut; Kris Mohandie and J. Reid Meloy; 10. Contemporary Research on Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures; Jens Hoffmann, J. Reid Meloy, and Lorraine Sheridan; ; 11. Intimate Partner Violence, Stalking, and Femicide; P. Randall Kropp and Alana N. Cook; 12. The Assessment of Anonymous Threatening Communications; Andre Simons and Ronald Tunkel; 13. Electronic Threats and Harassment; Mario J. Scalora; ; 14. Computer Modeling of Violent Intent: A Content Analysis Approach; Antonio Sanfilippo, Liam McGrath, and Eric Bell; 15. The Use of Threat Assessment in Tactical Operations: Reverse Engineering the Method; James Biesterfeld; 16. Insider Threats in Bioterrorism Cases; Ronald Schouten and Gregory Saathoff; 17. Threat Assessment of Targeted Honor-based Violence; Henrik Belfrage and

Dr. J. Reid Meloy is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine and a faculty member at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Meloy is a board-certified forensic psychologist and internationally recognized expert in threat assessment. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and an elected affiliate of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship. Dr. Jens Hoffmann is a forensic psychologist and researcher collaborating with several universities in Germany. Dr. Hoffmann is head of the forensic consulting firm Team Psychology and Security and head of Institute Psychology & Threat Management, having offices in Germany and Switzerland. He is also former president and board member of the European Association of Threat Assessment Professionals.

"Meloy and Hoffmann-two of the world's premiere scholars of threat assessment-have brought together an 'A-List' of international contributors to elucidate in clear, jargon-free prose the implications for practice and policy of cutting-edge research on threats and those who make them. This is a remarkably comprehensive work that needs to be within arm's reach of every professional who deals with people at high risk of violent behavior." -- John Monahan, PhD, Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Virginia "This is a comprehensive fusion of scholarly research and field experience, from a group of world authorities in the multidisciplinary domain of threat assessment. It is a cutting-edge tool in the prevention of targeted violence." -- Michele Pathe, MBBS, MD, FRANZCP, Adjunct Professor and Senior Forensic Psychiatrist, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia "This book contains a treasure trove of crystallized wisdom by the world's leading threat assessment researchers. It combines the latest science with highly practical approaches to assessing threats in various contexts. Every serious threat assessment professional should read it." -- Phillip Resnick, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University ."..provides a very valuable overview of the threat assessment and management discipline, and offers both much to learn from and direction for what still needs to be done. An impressive array of practitioners and thinkers have contributed to this volume, and everyone can benefit from it."--Ali Soufan, Former FBI Special Agent; Chairman, The Soufan Group; and Author, The Black Banners