Many agencies have adopted strategically oriented policing models to identify crime trends. These are _______________________
COMPSTAT
What is the most constant threat to public figures?
Fixated loners most of whom have mental illness.
What type of trauma is caused in stalking cases.
Psychological Trauma
Is a person who is suicidal also homicidal? _________________
Yes
These folks exhibit a pattern of behavior involving the unusually persistent pursuit of a personal grievance in a manner seriously damaging to the person concerned.
Querulants
What is a prosecutor looking for in most stalking cases to aid in prosecution?
Credible Threat. B. Various degrees of Fear.
What is paramount in case management- __________________
Victim Safety also requires victim buy-in
This tool is structured around two fundamental concepts about risk. a. Risk is not a unitary concept and 2. Risk is determined in part by motivation
Stalking Risk Profile (SRP)
True or False The more removed or distant the connection between victim and defendant the lower the risk?
TRUE
What form of interview is considered intimidating?
Knock and Talk
In Smith’s research what was one factor that placed a threatener at a higher risk of violence
Threatener contacts target multiple times
What are the main threat to public figures in western countries?
Fixated loners
What was established in the UK in 2006 that combined policing and a psychiatric approach to RA and Management in Public Figure threat cases?
Fixated Threat Assessment Center
What does B-Safer stand for and what type of tool is it?
Brief Sposal assault form for the evaluation of risk. Its an SPJ tool.
What is one thing a Threat Assessment has that a Risk assessment doesn’t
Behavioral Policing focus geared to triage folks into low-med-high level of concern to determine immediate level of response.