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Assessing the threat of lone-actor terrorism: the reliability and validity of the TRAP-18
Terrorism, especially lone-actor terrorism, is considered a major national security threat in both North America and Europe. The threat of terrorism has many faces and violence can arise from all ideological extremes. The authors present the theoretical model and current empirical validation of the...
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description | Terrorism, especially lone-actor terrorism, is considered a major national security threat in both North America and Europe. The threat of terrorism has many faces and violence can arise from all ideological extremes. The authors present the theoretical model and current empirical validation of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP-18), a structured professional judgment instrument for those engaged in risk assessment of persons of concern for acts of terrorist violence. It can be used independently of a particular ideology. The TRAP-18 consists of 8 proximal warning behaviors and 10 distal characteristics, and has been designed to help prioritize the imminency of risk in specific cases, and therefore determine the intensity of monitoring and active management a case requires. Research has demonstrated excellent interrater reliability, and promising content, criterion, discriminant, and predictive validity. More research is in progress. The TRAP-18 is currently used by counterterrorism experts in North America and Europe. It offers a useful approach for professionals who may be assessing and treating individuals of national security concern. |
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spelling | pubmed-71492732020-04-13 Assessing the threat of lone-actor terrorism: the reliability and validity of the TRAP-18 Guldimann, Angela Meloy, J. Reid Forens Psychiatr Psychol Kriminol Review Terrorism, especially lone-actor terrorism, is considered a major national security threat in both North America and Europe. The threat of terrorism has many faces and violence can arise from all ideological extremes. The authors present the theoretical model and current empirical validation of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP-18), a structured professional judgment instrument for those engaged in risk assessment of persons of concern for acts of terrorist violence. It can be used independently of a particular ideology. The TRAP-18 consists of 8 proximal warning behaviors and 10 distal characteristics, and has been designed to help prioritize the imminency of risk in specific cases, and therefore determine the intensity of monitoring and active management a case requires. Research has demonstrated excellent interrater reliability, and promising content, criterion, discriminant, and predictive validity. More research is in progress. The TRAP-18 is currently used by counterterrorism experts in North America and Europe. It offers a useful approach for professionals who may be assessing and treating individuals of national security concern. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-03-31 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7149273/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11757-020-00596-y Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Review Guldimann, Angela Meloy, J. Reid Assessing the threat of lone-actor terrorism: the reliability and validity of the TRAP-18 |
title | Assessing the threat of lone-actor terrorism: the reliability and validity of the TRAP-18 |
title_full | Assessing the threat of lone-actor terrorism: the reliability and validity of the TRAP-18 |
title_fullStr | Assessing the threat of lone-actor terrorism: the reliability and validity of the TRAP-18 |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the threat of lone-actor terrorism: the reliability and validity of the TRAP-18 |
title_short | Assessing the threat of lone-actor terrorism: the reliability and validity of the TRAP-18 |
title_sort | assessing the threat of lone-actor terrorism: the reliability and validity of the trap-18 |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149273/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11757-020-00596-y |
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