Behavioral Threat Assessment

As a law enforcement officer, you may be contacted when someone has observed threatening behavior, heard a subject make a verbal threat, or received information from a third party that someone intended to be violent. Some of these calls will have a high potential for violence, while others will not.

After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Describe Behavioral Threat Assessment and the types of violence it applies to.
• Explain the steps along the “path of intended violence.”
• List the common warning behaviors associated with intended violence.
• The difference between Behavioral Threat Assessment and Violence Risk Assessment.