How Dangerous is this Person? Assessing Danger & Violence Potential

This book identifies cues for potential violence, including profiles from mental health along with frustration-based aggression, bullying, cultural influences, substance abuse, psychosis, and special considerations. Key criteria formulate therapy, treatment, and intervention, including helping laypersons decide when to seek legal or professional help. Violence erupts in communities, homes, work, schools, and neighborhoods. Perpetrators may be unknown to few other than family and associates until their violence makes the evening news, or they may be famous or infamous in the public eye already. Retrospective examination often finds cues and indications of potential violence lurking in the hearts and minds of eventual perpetrators.Cues and indications formulate theoretical foundations for assessing for an individual's potential to become dangerous to others or violent. Profiles are presented that differentially indicate the potential and process of violence. Key criteria are explained for not only for assessment but to guide prevention. Written for professionals charged with protecting the public, the information may guide others whether to seek intervention by authorities.