International Handbook of Threat Assessment

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.

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 Linda Ekman ; 18. Fundamentals of Threat Assessment for Beginners ; Mary Ellen O'Toole and Sharon S. Smith ; Part III. Threat Assessment- Operations ; 19. The LAPD Threat Management Unit ; Jeffrey Dunn ; 20. The Fixated Threat Assessment Center: Implementing a Joint Policing and Psychiatric Approach to Risk Assessment and Management in Public Figure Threat Cases ; David V. James, Frank R. Farnham, and Simon P. Wilson ; 21. Threat Triage: Recognizing the Needle in the Haystack ; Sharon S. Smith, Robert B. Woyach, and Mary Ellen O'Toole ; 22. Domestic Violence Threat Assessment: Putting Knowledge and Skills into Practice ; Keith Dormond ; 23. An Operational Approach to Prosecuting Stalking Cases ; Rachel Solov ; 24. Building up a Threat Assessment Process at Universities: Experiences from Europe ; Jens Hoffmann and Katherine Timmel Zamboni ; 25. The Problem Behavior Program: Threat Assessment and Management in Community Forensic Mental Health ; Troy E. McEwan, Rachel D. MacKenzie, and Jennifer McCarthy ; 26. Threat Assessment within the United States Navy and Marine Corps ; Dorian Van Horn ; 27. Assessing Threats by Direct Interview of the Violent True Believer ; J. Reid Meloy and Kris Mohandie