Mentally Disordered Offenders in Pursuit of Celebrities and Politicians

Dietz, Park Elliot; Martell, Daniel A.

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“…The likely reason for this is the desire to maximize the probability of success. And in some cases, direct threats have been shown to decrease the risk of a problematic approach to a public figure (Dietz & Martell, 1989;Dietz et al, 1991a,b;Meloy et al, 2010) in large group studies. Once again, however, it is critical to note that a small proportion of direct threateners do attack public figures, and all direct threats should be taken seriously (Hoffmann, Meloy & Sheridan, 2014;Scalora et al, 2008;Warren et al, 2014).…”

Section: Pre-attack Behavior and Direct Threatsmentioning

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A Research Review of Public Figure Threats, Approaches, Attacks, and Assassinations in the United States

Meloy¹,

James²,

Farnham³

et al. 2004

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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An archival descriptive study of public figure attackers in the United States between 1995 and 2015 was undertaken. Fifty-six incidents were identified, primarily through exhaustive internet searches, composed of 58 attackers and 58 victims. A code book was developed which focused upon victims, offenders, pre-attack behaviors including direct threats, attack characteristics, post-offense and other outcomes, motivations and psychological abstracts. The average interrater agreement for coding of bivariate variables was 0.835 (intraclass correlation coefficient). The three most likely victim categories were politicians, judges, and athletes. Attackers were males, many with a psychiatric disorder, most were grandiose, and most had both a violent and nonviolent criminal history. The known motivations for the attacks were often angry and personal, the most common being dissatisfaction with a judicial or other governmental process (23%). In only one case was the primary motivation to achieve notoriety. Lethality risk during an attack was 55%. Collateral injury or death occurred in 29% of the incidents. Only 5% communicated a direct threat to the target beforehand. The term "publicly intimate figure" is introduced to describe the sociocultural blurring of public and private lives among the targets, and its possible role in some attackers' perceptions and motivations.

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Section: Pre-attack Behavior and Direct Threatsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Research Review of Public Figure Threats, Approaches, Attacks, and Assassinations in the United States

Meloy¹,

James²,

Farnham³

et al. 2004

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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“…Therefore, it may be more than coincidence that security officers and other representatives of major companies have in very recent years reported increasing numbers of unusual letters, e-mails, and physical approaches. This presumably mirrors a trend arising a few decades before when specialized police units and private security reported rising numbers of stalking incidents concerning politicians and celebrities (Dietz and Martell 1989).…”

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“…In the Dutch study of public figure victims, the percentage of male and female respondents who reported incidents of stalking was similar. In many other studies of stalking both among non-celebrity populations (Spitzberg 2002) and within celebrity groups (Dietz and Martell 1989) an average of 70% -80% of all stalking victims are women.…”

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Public Figures and Stalking in the European Context

Hoffmann

2009

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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“…Contemporary campus threat assessment evolved into its current form through empirical research into various types of targeted violence. This research includes the seminal work of Dietz, Martell and their colleagues on threats and pursuit of celebrities and members of Congress (see e.g., Dietz & Martell, 1989) and the landmark Secret Service Exceptional Case Study Project (Fein & Vossekuil, 1998;.…”

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From Presidential Protection to Campus Security: A Brief History of Threat Assessment in North American Schools and Colleges

Randazzo¹,

Cameron

2012

Journal of College Student Psychotherapy

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This article provides a brief history of the development of behavioral threat assessment within colleges and universities in the UnitedStates and Canada, from the original Secret Service model used to evaluate threats against the U.S. president, to its adaptations for workplace settings and United States and Canadian secondary schools, to its current configuration in U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. The article reviews the emerging standard of care for higher education institutions with respect to having a campus threat assessment process and includes recommendations for how college mental health professionals can provide vision and expertise to a campus threat assessment team. KEYWORDS campus threat assessment, campus violence, higher education, school threat assessment, school violence, threat assessment history, violence preventionThe campus shootings at Virginia Tech, on April 16, 2007, marked a critical turning point in U.S. higher education. The scope of the tragedy, and the international media attention it garnered, resulted in an intense focus on the issue of campus security and the question of what could be done to prevent such a tragedy from happening in the future (e.g.

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Mentally Disordered Offenders in Pursuit of Celebrities and Politicians

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A Research Review of Public Figure Threats, Approaches, Attacks, and Assassinations in the United States

A Research Review of Public Figure Threats, Approaches, Attacks, and Assassinations in the United States

Public Figures and Stalking in the European Context

From Presidential Protection to Campus Security: A Brief History of Threat Assessment in North American Schools and Colleges

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