Lone Actor Violence: Stepping Through Formulation and Risk Decision Making
Fri, 24 Nov
|live on-line
The training will review the emergence of lone actors as a distinct form of perpetrator. A myriad of newly developed risk and threat tools will be explored and recommendations provided on the best practice approach to assessing lone actor violence.
Time & Location
24 Nov 2023, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
live on-line
About the event
Lone actor violence is considered to be a diverse category of offending, encompassing acts of terrorism, school/university shooting, workplace killings, and rampage/mass murders.
In response to the emerging violence, specialised units and teams tasked with dealing with threats and persons of concern police have been established. This has created a range of new and varied roles across police, corrections, mental health services, other government agencies, and the private sector. Legislation has also changed across many states and countries with the expansion of criminal code definitions of terrorism and the implementation of continuing detention orders in some places. Consequently, there has been surge in the commission of lone actor offending, along with a number of convictions against those planning and intending to carry out a violent attack.
At the same time, there has been increasing demand on risk and threat assessment tools to provide evidence based risk estimates to inform the…