School Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management

Cultural‐competence considerations for contemporary school‐based threat assessment

“…Results of the first level of analysis, conducted at the threatassessment article level, indicate that most of the 24 articles published on school-based threat assessment in the last ten years include little to no coverage of considerations for YPOC or CLD young people. The article with the most coverage for cultural competence, a recently published article by Reeves and Brock (2017), summarized considerations for implicit bias in the threat-assessment process, a relatively new contribution to the field. Despite this recent addition, our analysis of advances in cultural-competence considerations by year of publication suggests that more recently published threat-assessment literature has generally not incorporated concurrent advancements in concepts of cultural competence.…”

“…Half of the 24 reviewed articles had scores of less than the median CC score of 6.17, and half had scores between 6.18 and the maximum observed CC score of 13.67. The highest scoring article was published relatively recently, suggesting that considerations for cultural competence in threat assessment may be expanding and becoming more differentiated (Reeves & Brock, 2017; M = 13.67, SD = 4.16); however, analysis of change on average CC score by year of publication suggested no linear trend between time of publication and CC score (R 2 = 0.001; p = 0.92). Overall, the article-level analysis indicates generally poor within-article coverage of culturalcompetence topics.…”

“…Broadly defined, school-based threat assessment is the process for responding systematically after an individual threatens to commit a violent act or engages in behavior perceived as threatening (Cornell, 2015). Reeves and Brock (2017) (Borum, Fein, Vossekuil, & Berglund, 1999), and the Virginia student threat-assessment guidelines (Virginia guidelines; Cornell & Sheras, 2006).…”

University policy support for threat assessment: A case analysis of public higher education institutions in one U.S. state.

“…Written university threat assessment policies were collected from each of the 4-year public state universities by two graduate students. Written policies, rather than oral accounts, of threat assessment policies were selected as many sources within the threat assessment literature highlight the importance of having written threat assessment policies in place (e.g., Louvar Reeves, 2021). The graduate students first reviewed each university’s website to determine if they could locate the university policy.…”

Preventing school violence: A review of school threat assessment models.

“…Previous reviews have summarized the school threat assessment literature well but are limited to examining select models of school threat assessment (e.g., Cornell, 2020; Reeves & Brock, 2018). The current article provides a more comprehensive review of well-known models.…”