Reducing the Risk of Targeted Gun Violence: Proactive Organization Policies and Practices to Address Emerging Threats - Paperback

by James Kenny (Author)

The wave of targeted gun violence in America has made it clear that organizations and communities must be prepared to deal with it, whether at workplaces, schools, hospitals, houses of worship, entertainment venues, or other open spaces. This book helps organizations develop practices and policies to identify, understand, manage, and prevent dangerous persons from committing acts of extreme violence.

Starting from past legislative policies and legal decisions involving gun control, Reducing the Risk of Targeted Gun Violence: Proactive Organization Policies and Practices to Address Emerging Threats identifies the progressive steps an individual takes toward gun violence, and explains how organizations can impede that progress. Readers will learn how to detect motivating grievances, understand progressively dangerous behaviors, set up road blocks by limiting vulnerabilities and access, and de-escalate pre-incident indicators and crisis situations. This book also provides a blueprint on how to create internal Multidisciplinary Violence Prevention teams to monitor and redirect potential threats.

This book is constructed to serve as a reference for workplace, school, government, and criminal justice professionals faced with issues relating to interpersonal violence, terrorism, and threats of criminal attacks. It is also designed for instructor use in undergraduate or graduate Criminal Justice, Criminology, Political Science, Forensic Psychology, Sociology, Homeland Security, and Risk Management courses.

Author Biography

James F. Kenny, PhD, is Professor of Criminal Justice at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he received the Distinguished Faculty and Outstanding Teaching Awards and served as the Criminal Justice Graduate and Internship Coordinator. Dr. Kenny was selected to the U.S. Justice Department's National Victim Center Work Group on Workplace Violence and the New Jersey Superior Court Juvenile Conference Committee, United Educators Panel on Threat Assessment Teams. He was also previously the violence prevention trainer at the Center for Peace Studies, U.S. Treasury Department, U.S. Postal Service, New Jersey Department of Education, and Virginia Tech. His research and publications have appeared in journals, book chapters, and trade magazines. Dr. Kenny is the author of Hiding in Plain Sight: Deceptive Tactics and the Criminal Victimization Process (2020).