The North Carolina BeTA Investigation Overview (NCBIO-25): A structured professional judgment tool (SPJ) for behavioral threat assessment in law enforcement settings.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Tuomi Jones ◽  
Angel E. Gray ◽  
Margot M. Williams
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Threat Assessment ◽  
Professional Judgment ◽  
The North ◽  
Structured Professional Judgment

Drug Screening in the Public Sector: A Focus on Law Enforcement

1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis M. Daley ◽  
Curtis L. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Drug Screening ◽  
Screening Program ◽  
International Association ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
The North ◽  
Chain Of Custody ◽  
Reasonable Suspicion

The academic and legal literature has clearly established a set of policies suited for inclusion in a comprehensive drug screening program. The employment of urinanalysis, random drug tests, reasonable suspicion tests, and chain of custody procedures are mixed with employee safeguards such as test interpretation by medical review officers, analysis in NIDA certified labs, and confirmatory tests for initial positive results. This paper provides a two-fold, empirical examination of those policies. First, the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Testing were surveyed. The IADLEST members' recommendations represent the standards that law enforcement agencies in each state would consider as their most appropriate professional guidelines. Inasmuch as they fall short of what the literature recommends (and they do in regard to a number of items), it is unlikely that individual police departments would find either the support or courage for recommending stronger policies. Second, a North Carolina survey examines the implementation of these recommendations by municipalities in one of the more advanced states included in the IADLEST survey. In general, municipal police departments are found to follow the North Carolina Criminal Justice Standards Division's recommendations.

Threat Assessment of Targeted Honor-Based Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 321-331
Author(s):  
Henrik Belfrage ◽  
Linda Ekman
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Threat Assessment ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Professional Judgment ◽  
Vulnerability Factors ◽  
The Family ◽  
Safety Plan ◽  
Structured Professional Judgment ◽  
Victim Vulnerability

Honor-based violence can be defined as “any actual attempted or threatened physical harm of a family member with honor as a principle motive.” In its most extreme form it is manifested as murder of a family member (most often a woman or girl), or an intimate partner of a family member, because of the perpetrator’s belief that the victim has brought dishonor on the family. This chapter describes PATRIARCH, a structured professional judgment tool for assessing risk and threat of honor-based violence. The tool includes 15 factors, comprising the nature and pattern of the honor-based violence behavior, perpetrator risk factors, and victim vulnerability factors. The use of the tool in practice is described using a case example where the factors are exemplified and a summary risk formulation and a safety plan are made.

Intimate Partner Violence, Stalking, and Femicide

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-209
Author(s):  
P. Randall Kropp ◽  
Alana N. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Threat Assessment ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Professional Judgment ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Risk Management Strategies ◽  
Structured Professional Judgment

Professionals are commonly asked to address the risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) in criminal justice, civil court, health care, workplace, and post-secondary settings. This chapter reviews the literature addressing risk factors for IPV and the state of the art for threat assessment tools for this form of violence. Special attention is given to the topics of stalking and killing of intimate partners. While these issues are related to the more general problem of IPV, they require some unique considerations in conducting threat assessments. The chapter concludes that there remain difficulties in the field in defining “threat,” determining the role of the victim in threat assessment, and implementing effective risk management strategies. Promising practices in assessing and managing stalking are presented along with a model for formulating risk in high-lethality situations. Finally, a case study is presented to illustrate a structured professional judgment (SPJ) approach to threat assessment in this context.

Hydrogeologic framework of the North Carolina Coastal Plain aquifer system

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.D. Winner ◽  
R.W. Coble
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Aquifer System ◽  
The North ◽  
Hydrogeologic Framework
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