Neurocognitive Risk Assessment for the Early Detection of Violent Extremists

Professor Dean is responsible for the domain of Policing, Intelligence & Security within the School of Justice in the Faculty of Law at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. His areas of professional expertise, teaching specialisation and research excellence are in Knowledge-Managed Policing (KMP) including police management and policing technologies; Global Organised Crime (GOC), including criminal entrepreneurialism; Violent Extremism (VE) including terrorism, social media and cyber terrorism; Criminal & Terrorism Profiling (CTP) and Investigative Psychology (IP), particularly in relation to investigator’s thinking styles. His professional networks include memberships in the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology (SPCP) in America; an honorary member of the Italian Association for Investigative Psychology (AIPI) in Rome; a visiting scholar with the Centre for Teaching and Research in Behavioural Analysis (CERPAC) in France; registered as an international expert with EUROPOL at the Knowledge Management Centre, The Hague in the Netherlands; as well as consulting widely with various Police Services, Institutes and Universities in Asia [Singapore, China], Europe [England, France, Norway, Germany, Italy], North America [Canada and the US]. Professor Dean’s consultancy work covers a wide variety of both public sector and industry groups.

• Preface.- Risk Assessment: Research on Violence.- Background to Research Project: Violent Extremism.- Current Research: Neurocognitive Risk Assessment.- Research Project: Expert Elicitation Study.- Discussion.- Conclusion.- References.