The University of Nebraska Public Policy Center is partnering with the Nebraska Department of Education on a study that examines how perceptions and organization of school safety and security relate to law enforcement engagement in rural schools across the state of Nebraska. While rural schools engage with law enforcement, they often do not label the […]
The Public Policy Center is partnering with Nebraska Emergency Management and Two Rivers Public Health Department in a project funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security focused on countering violent extremism (CVE). The project focuses on identification of barriers to reporting potential signs of radicalization and preferred community strategies for addressing these barriers, especially […]
Hollister, B. A., Scalora, M. J., Hoff, S. M., Hodges, H. J., & Marquez, A. (2016). College student reporting responses to hypothetical and actual safety concerns. Journal of School Violence, 1-18.
Hodges, H. J., Low, E. C., Viñas-Racionero, M. R., Hollister, B. A., Scalora, M. J. (2016) Examining the reasons for student responses to threatening behaviors on a college campus. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 3(3-4), 129-142.
Deisinger, E.R.D., Scalora, M.J. (2016) Threat assessment and management in higher education in the United States: A review of the 10 years since the mass casualty incident at Virginia Tech. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 3(3-4), 186-199.
Scalora, M. J., & Zimmerman, W. (2015). Then and now: Tracking a federal agency’s threat assessment activity through two decades with an eye toward the future. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 2(3-4), 268-274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tam0000057
Hollister, B. A., & Scalora, M. J. (2015). Broadening campus threat assessment beyond mass shootings. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 25(Part A), 43-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2015.07.005
Hodges, H., & Scalora, M. J. (2015). Challenging the political assumption that “Guns don’t kill people, crazy people kill people!” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 85(3), 211-216.
Hollister, B. H., Scalora, M. J., Hoff, S., & Marquez, A. J. (2014). Exposure to pre-incident behavior and reporting in college students. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 1(2), 129-143.
This program of research is multi-disciplinary but grounded in behavioral science principles. The research team engages in research opportunities that will add to the general body of knowledge while enhancing the real-world practice of threat assessment. For more information, please visit the threat assessment web site.
©2019 University of Nebraska Public Policy Center