A Threat Assessment Model for Posts in The Online Sphere

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Author(s): Selina E.M. Kerr (Independent Researcher, UK)and Mary Ann O'Grady (Grand Canyon University, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 14
Source title: Handbook of Research on School Violence in American K-12 Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Gordon A. Crews (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6246-7.ch015

Keywords: Education / Information Science Reference / K-12 Education

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Since it has been suggested that social media offers an unprecedented view into the mindset of “persons of concern” with regards to mass shooters, this research study focuses on the comments about “school shootings” expressed on the social media and video sharing website YouTube. As a form of targeted violence that tends to be planned well in advance of the attack, there are opportunities to intervene and assess a school shooting threat before it transpires. Since previous studies have purported that the majority of school shooters had communicated their intention to carry out their attack in advance of it occurring—something which has become known by the term “leakage”—the authors have chosen to develop the foundation for a threat assessment model that is based upon the internet postings that relate to school shootings. The proposed model entitled “online threat assessment of school shooters” (OTASS) could be a tentative starting point for carrying out assessments of threats into online postings.

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