SUBJECT AREA: Managing Violent Extremists

Session: Violent Extremist Risk Assessment -VERA 2R

Room: Catalina

Presenter: Dr. Elaine Pressman

The Violent Extremist Risk Assessment (VERA 2R) is world renowned structured professional judgment risk assessment tool developed by Dr. Pressman. She will provide an overview of the components of the instrument, how the measures were identified, and its practical applications in the field of community corrections.

Session: Terrorist Risk Assessment: What We Know, What We Need to Know, and How We Can Get There

Room: Santa Anita (A)

Presenter: Dr. John Horgan (Professor at the Global Studies Institute and Department of Psychology, Georgia State University)

Overview of Topics:

· What does terrorist risk assessment mean?

· Why we don’t have a clear profile of those who engage in terrorism

· What we know about terrorist psychology

· Deciphering the complexity of terrorist motivation

· Current research on risk factors for terrorism

· Research gaps and opportunities

· Alternative and complimentary approaches to risk assessment

· Lessons for practitioners

Session: Pathways to Violent Extremism: An Empirical Assessment of Domestic Radicalization

Room: Santa Anita (B)

Presenter: Dr. Mike Jensen, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland, College Park

Scholars who study radicalization often suggest that the phenomenon should be viewed as a set of pathways as opposed to simple profiles. But what do those pathways look like? Using findings from the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) project at the University of Maryland, this workshop will explore how psychological, emotional, material, and group-based variables combine to produce unique pathways to violent extremism. This talk will also address the implications of a pathway view of radicalization for domestic counterterrorism and CVE policy, focusing in particular on policies that are both productive and counterproductive for preventing acts of political violence.

Session: Violent Extremist Threat Assessment

Room: Santa Barbara (A)

Presenter: Special Agent Dr. Terri Patterson, FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit

SSA Patterson will discuss issues related to the ongoing threat posed by homegrown violent extremism in the U.S. In the context of case examples, her discussion will include the radicalization process, mobilization indicators and issues to consider in the management of terrorism offenders. The results of ongoing research at the BAU will also be provided in the context of case examples.

SUBJECT AREA: General Violence (Red Band Cases)

Session: Acute Risk

Room: Santa Barbara (B)

Presenter: Dr. Ralph Serin

· Situate static and dynamic risk factors within risk assessment.

· Provide examples of stable and acute risks.

· Review current literature regarding predictive validity of acute risks.

· Comment on the frequency of dynamic risk assessment and integration with other risk measures.

· Describe how changes in dynamic risk can inform case planning and risk management – due diligence implications.

Session: U.S. Probation Risk Assessment (PCRA 2.0)

Room: San Gabriel (A)

Presenter: Aaron McGrath

· Understanding the Violence Trailer

· Importance of Fidelity

· Overrides

Session: Violence Risk Assessment

Room: San Gabriel (B)

Presenter: Dr. Jay P. Singh

· The Epidemiology of Mental Health and Violence

· Diagnostic Approaches to Psychopathy

· Evidence-Based Approaches to Violence Risk Assessment

· The Role of Psychopathy in Violence Risk Assessment

Session: Neuroscience and Violence

Room: Santa Anita (C)

Presenter: Dr. Dean A. Haycock

· A Brief Overview of What is Known About the Neurobiology of Violence

· Psychopathy and Violence

· Brain Imaging Studies of Psychopathic Individuals

SUBJECT AREA: Managing Violent Extremists

Session: Terrorism Landscape: Radicalization and Mobilization for Homegrown Violent Extremists

Room: Catalina Ballroom

Presenter: Ann C. Rohrhoff, National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)

This presentation will discuss the current terrorism landscape in the West, influential overseas actors (ISIS, al-Qa’ida, Hizballah, etc.), pathways to extremist violence, indicators of radicalization and mobilization, bystander reporting, and case studies.

· Homegrown Violent Extremist (HVE) Mobilization Indicators

· Bystander Effect

Session: Managing Extremists - Correctional Intelligence

Room: Santa Anita (B)

Presenter: Dr. Miranda Faust; Holly Trask, FBI/NJTTF

· U.S. Probation/NJTTF-BOP Collaboration

· Correctional Intelligence Unit

· Violent Extremist Classification System

Session: Public Health and Epidemic Control Approach to Reducing Violent Extremism

Room: Santa Barbara (A)

Presenter: Jalon Arthur, CURE Violence (Violent Extremism)

· Public Health and Epidemic Control Approach to Reducing Violent Extremism

· Critical Program Elements and Considerations for Implementation

· Innovative Strategies for Detecting and Effectively Working With Individuals Who May be Vulnerable for Recruitment and Extremism Violence

· Tracking Programming Efforts

Session: FBI/Counterterrorism Internet Operations Section

Room: Santa Barbara (B)

Presenter: SSA Jennie Werneck (FBI)

· Terrorist Use of the Internet

· Mobile Messaging Applications

SUBJECT AREA: General Violence (Red Band Cases)

Session: Tools to Enhance High Risk for Violence Monitoring and Restrictions

Room: Santa Anita (A)

Presenters: Sid Hays, Edyta Malik, Lisa Bishop

· Location Monitoring

· Computer Monitoring

Session: Sentinel Events

Room: San Gabriel (A)

Presenters: Amanda Garcia, James Johnson, Maureen McGough, Jeffrey Thomason

· Sentinel Event Reviews: A System’s Approach to Case Investigations.

· Lessons Learned From the National Institute of Justice.

· A Chief’s Perspective About Sentinel Events in the Federal System.

Session: Law Enforcement Partnerships

Room: San Gabriel (B)

Presenters: Jay Whetzel; Peter Merrigan; Mannone Butler, CJCC; Jon Gustin, BOP

· Explore well-established and new examples of law enforcement/community corrections coordination.

· Discuss the challenges to and opportunities for better BOP/federal probation collaboration with residential reentry centers (RRC).

· Highlight the importance of data systems (e.g., SRF) linkages as well as the need for more proactive law enforcement contacts.

Session: Special Populations (Indian Country, Gangs)

Room: Santa Anita (C)

Presenters: Leslie Hagen and Georgeanna Adams (Indian Country), Dayna Ward (Gangs)

· Challenges and strategies for working with violent individuals in Indian Country.

· The unique legal and political relationship between the United States and Tribes.

· How to assess the risk of violence for gang members. Strategies for supervising gang members.

SUBJECT AREA: Managing Violent Extremists

Session: Deradicalization: Methods, Challenges, and Ways Forward

Room: Catalina Ballroom

Presenter: Daniel Koehler, German Institute on Radicalization and De-Radicalization Studies

· Overview of the topic: de-radicalization, CVE, Europe and US, practical challenges

Session: Responding to the Challenges of Terrorism/Extremism in Federal Probation and Pretrial Service

Room: Santa Anita (A)

Presenter: Kevin Lowry, Chief Probation Officer, District of Minnesota

· Understanding the radicalization and intervention processes

· Establishing risk assessment skills for radicalized defendants and offenders

· Developing judgment skills for decision-making for release or detention in terrorism-related cases

· Identifying strategies for mitigating risk with necessary conditions of release

Session: Management, Intervention, and Reintegration Approaches for Violent Extremist Offenders

Room: Santa Anita (B)

Presenter: Eelco Kessels, Global Center on Cooperative Security

· Differences between violent extremists and other offenders

· International approaches to managing violent extremist offenders

· Promising principles and practices for effective risk reduction interventions

· Promising principles and practices to support reintegration

Session: Intelligence Project/Southern Poverty Law Center

Room: Santa Barbara (A)

Presenter: Sarah Viets, Senior Research Analyst, Intelligence Project/Southern Poverty Law Center

· Sovereign Citizens, Hate Groups, Lone Wolves

· Overview of the Various Types of Domestic Violent Extremists

SUBJECT AREA: General Violence (Red Band Cases)

Session: Treating Violence as a Disease

Room: Santa Barbara (B)

Presenters: CURE Violence

· Public Health and Epidemic Control Approach to Reducing Violence

· Critical Elements for Working With the Highest Risk Offenders

· Innovative Cutting-Edge Strategies for Effectively Working With the Highest Risk Populations

(e.g. Technology, Rapid Reduction Model)

· Tracking, Monitoring, and Evaluating to Inform Practice

Session: Officer Safety

Room: San Gabriel (A)

Presenters: Gene DiMaria

· Identify the planning process for conducting safe contacts.

· Identify safety considerations in the interview phase of a safety-related incident.

· Identify the principles of observation, orientation, decision, and action and how these principles interrelate with one another.

· Identify physical and mental reactions to stress and the effect on officer responses.

Session: Violence Interventions

Room: San Gabriel (B)

Presenters: Ralph Serin, Grant Meyers

· Discuss violent offender heterogeneity and implications for identifying intervention targets (includes comment on psychopathy).

· Comment on the difference between programming (treatment) and intervention.

· Review in-session strategies, job aids.

· Review contemporary program models.

· Review violent offender treatment efficacy.

· Cincinnati Criminogenic Needs Project (Violence).

Session: Searches, Seizures, and Surveillance

Room: Santa Anita (C)

Presenters: Brian Hudson, Carrie Kent, Scott Anders, Koda Hendrix

· Search and Seizure

· Surveillance