Understanding Bias Motivated Factors in Threat Assessment: What Agencies Should Know When Implementing Culturally Competent Targeted Violence Prevention Programs

Sunday, October 20, 2024

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET

Location: 257AB

Submitter and Speaker(s)

Mariya Dvoskina, Psy.D, CTM

Police Psychologist
Nicoletti-Flater Associates
Denver, Colorado, United States

Speaker(s)

Austin Camblin, Psy.D

Post Doctoral Fellow
Nicoletti-Flater Associates
Denver, Colorado, United States
Jessica Semmann, Ph.D

Director of Threat Assessment and Management
The University of Arizona
Tuscon, Arizona, United States
Christopher Olson

Chief of Police
University of Arizona Police Department

With violent extremism on the rise in United States communities, it is more important than ever for agencies and police psychologists to understand how bias-motivated factors impact their communities. This presentation will help law enforcement and police psychologists gain a greater understanding of the pathway to violence, the process of radicalization, and pre-incident indicators of targeted violence attacks that are based on race, ethnicity, and/or other diverse identities (e.g., anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, targeted violence toward the LGBTQ+ population). Implementation strategies for building culturally competent targeted violence prevention programs will be discussed.