Behavioral Science and the Secret Service: Toward the Prevention of Assassination. Workshop Held March 8-10 at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

摘要

This report contains a summary and papers of a workshop on the Secret Service and predicting violence. Discussions are summarized in such categories as assessing potentially dangerous behavior, approaches to the study of assassination, relations between the Service and mental health professionals, management of dangerous subjects, and training of special agents. Four full-scale papers by conference planners are included, as are 11 presentations at the conference, and memoranda contributed post-conference by some of the nearly 40 participants.