 | Fatal Grievances: Forecasting and Preventing Active Killer Threats in School, Campus, and Workplace Settings Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Health and Social Care; Law; Social Sciences; Tourism Hospitality and Events; Psychological Science; Mental Health; Social Work and Social Policy; Criminology - Law; Criminology and Criminal Justice; Events; Work & Organizational Psychology; School Psychology; School Social Work; Violence and Abuse; Crime Control - Criminology; Crime Prevention; Criminal Justice - Criminology; Crime and Crime Prevention; Counseling; Forms of Crime; Events Management; Active killer threats frequently dominate the headlines with stories of seemingly random mass killings in school, campus, and workplace settings. Nearly all of the attacks are over before the police can respond, leaving unanswered questions as to why these attacks happen and what can be done to prevent them. Fatal Grievances: Forecasting and Preventing Active Killer Threats in School, Campus, and Workplace Settings takes a proactive view of active killer threat management and resolution with the goal of preventing the attack before it occurs. Drawing from established threat assessment, behavioral analysis, and law enforcement negotiation theory and practice, the book presents models and methods designed to forecast and prevent an active killer attack through the process of identification, assessment, and engagement. This approach begins with definitions and orientations to violence, the importance of the primacy of focusing on direct behaviors of planned lethal violence over other more indirect behaviors, understanding how to identify a fatal grievance and that only fatal grievances result in planned lethal violence, the importance of understanding the process of crisis intervention as the key to eliminating the fatal grievance and the motivation to kill, and the use of time-series predictive behavioral threat forecasting methods to prevent an active killer attack. Case studies from within the United States and abroad support this unique approach to threat assessment and make the concepts and principles accessible to professionals working in the fields of education, human resources, and security. Gregory M. Vecchi currently serves as a Professor of Criminal Justice and Homeland Security at Keiser University and he is the Principal of VGI Consulting and Training. Dr. Vecchi has over 30 years of law enforcement experience. He was the former supervisory Special Agent and Chief of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit and career FBI negotiator. In these positions, he gained extensive experience assessing and interacting with violent offenders, as well as researching and conducting dozens of training sessions in threat assessment. Mary Ann Markey received a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Psychology from Florida Atlantic University, and PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Nova Southeastern University. She currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Ringling College of Art and Design while continuing to conduct research on intra-family violence and homicide, mass murder and serial murder. Jeffrey A. Daniels earned a B.A. in Psychology at Metropolitan State University-Denver, an M.S. in Counseling Psychology from Central Washington University, and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is currently a professor in the School of Counseling and Well-Being at West Virginia University. Dr. Daniels has been engaged in research pertaining to violence and violence prevention for over 23 years and he has engaged in collaborative research with the FBI for over 16 years using Perpetrator-Motive Research Design. |
