VERA-2R (Violent Extremism Risk Assessment)
Definition
Structured professional judgement instrument by Elaine Pressman and John Flockton (2010, revised) for known extremist individuals in contact with the justice or security system. Assesses five domains: beliefs and attitudes, context and intent, history and action, commitment and motivation, and protective factors.
Related terms
- BNS § 113 and UAPA
- BNS 2023 § 113 creates the general criminal offence of terrorist act in India. The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967 (as amended...
- Channel Programme (UK)
- The referral and multi-agency assessment pathway within UK Prevent. Any public-sector professional can refer an individual; a Channel panel assesses vulnerability and...
- Disengagement vs Deradicalisation
- Disengagement: ceasing to participate in extremist activity without necessarily changing underlying beliefs. Deradicalisation: changing the beliefs and identity constructs that motivated extremism....
- Leakage
- Intentional or unintentional communication of intent to commit violence to a third party. One of TRAP-18's eight proximal warning behaviours and the...
- McCauley-Moskalenko Two-Pyramid Model
- Conceptual framework (Friction, 2011) distinguishing the opinion pyramid (distribution of extreme views) from the action pyramid (distribution of extremist behaviour). The two...
- TRAP-18 (Terrorist Radicalisation Assessment Protocol)
- 18-indicator structured professional judgement instrument by Reid Meloy, Roshdi, Guldimann and Hoffmann (2014). Distinguishes 8 proximal warning behaviours (leakage, pathway, fixation, novel...
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- Extremism, Radicalisation and Lone-Actor ViolenceStructured professional judgement instrument by Elaine Pressman and John Flockton (2010, revised) for known extremist individuals in contact with the justice o...