1. What is important to understand when analyzing violent extremism?
2. What is a complex process that has been shown to vary by the extremist ideologies individuals embrace, the time periods in which they radicalize, the groups or movements they join, and individuals’ own characteristics and experiences?
3. What are the Potential Risk Factors Associated With Engaging or Attempting to Engage in Terrorism Among Lone-Actor Terrorists in the U.S.?
4. NOMS identified 22 general risk factors for engaging in extremist crime (which includes but is not limited to terrorism). These factors are related to three dimensions. What are the three dimensions?
5. Overall, the research sponsored to date by NIJ has provided important insights into the potential risk factors and indicators associated with engaging or attempting to engage in terrorism, but much work still remains to be done. Give six examples that need to be done?
6. Why Mental Health Services important in Countering Violent Extremism?
7. What is expected from law enforcement officers, Teachers, and Mental health professionals in efforts to diminish violent extremism and terrorism?
8. How to reduce your perfectionism behaviors?
9. Why do a majority of transgender victims are hesitant to report?

Answers:

A. Having a Criminal Record; Having Personal & Political Grievances; Having Received Diagnosis of Schizophrenia or Delusional Disorder; Having an Enabler; Being Unemployed; Having at Least a Bachelor’s Degree; Being Socially Isolated; Being Single; Living Alone Having Military Experience; & Being Male.
B. The differences and potential relationship between violent and nonviolent extremism.
C. Although some of the projects reviewed in this paper involved comparing individuals who engaged or attempted to engage in terrorism with those who did not, other projects did not include nonviolent comparison groups; Additional research needs to be conducted to examine whether particular risk factors and indicators associated with engaging or attempting to engage in violence vary by extremist ideology; In both of the studies that included only lone-actor terrorists, there was evidence that potential risk factors and indicators associated with engaging in violence may change over time; It is also important to examine risk factors and indicators associated with engaging in other behaviors of concern (e.g., extremist crime more generally, such as that assessed by the ERG 22+); Examining how risk factors interact and combine with each other — as well as with protective factors — is an important area for future research; and many of the risk factors and indicators included in the existing risk assessment instruments and methods discussed above were not examined in NIJ-sponsored research.
D. Radicalization to terrorism.
E. Extremist engagement (the process by which individuals become involved with an extremist group, cause, or ideology); extremist intent (the mindset associated with the readiness to commit an extremist offense); and extremist capability (the ability to perform the offense).
F. Some of those who do complain of abusive or disrespectful treatment by police: transgender women, for example, are sometimes put in male holding cells. Unfamiliarity with local laws and law enforcement processes may also discourage reporting.
G. May help to reduce vulnerability to violent extremism; may also help connect alienated youth to different social supports, and/or re-engage these youth with their families.; and can also help support families in learning how to reach out to, or stay connected with their children.
H. To refer individuals considered at risk for violence to mental health professionals or clergy; To identify and refer their students who exhibit violent radical ideas or threaten violence; and To assess whether a person is at-risk for committing an act of violence and to provide treatment which prevents violence.
I. Make an appointment with yourself to take the first step. By setting a date, time, and place you are making a commitment to yourself to begin the process of change.