Rage of the Random Actor - Hardcover

Dan Korem

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0963910353 ISBN 13: 9780963910356

Publisher: International Focus Press, 2005

Synopsis

Mass school shooters/bombers, suicide bombers, and postal/company killers all have something in common. They have the Random Actor behavioral profile identified in the early 1990s by Dan Korem, the critically acclaimed author of the classic text, The Art of Profiling - Reading People Right the First Time, 2nd ed. Korem details this profile and extraordinary cases where in an intervention he identified has thwarted scores of Random Actor attacks in schools, companies, and military theaters. Example: For over fifteen years, scores of Texas school districts have stopped attacks and threats by applying his research and many education and law enforcement professionals believe it is the reason that Texas has not had a mass shooting/bombing since the trend started in 1997. In the early 1990s, Korem predicted in the early 1990s with nearly 100% accuracy that suburban and small town communities the statistically safest communities are the locales where the attacks will occur and why. Newton, CT, Columbine, Virginia Tech, and most company attacks, for example typically occur in these locales. More importantly, he identified a three point intervention that guides a student/adult out of the Random Actor profile often within weeks. On a large scale, after 9-11 only one region in the US didn t have Random Actor threats . . . it was the only region where 2500 educators used Dan s research. They pre-identified students and provided intervention before they ever plotted an attack. Additionally, 150 times a day schools are evacuated because of Random Actor threats. The reason this trend is growing across the nation is that 6% of all students now have the Random Actor traits (up from 1-2% at the time of the Columbine Massacre) and approximately 3-4% in the workforce. The urgency to apply this research is even greater than when Rage of the Random Actor was first released.

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About the Author

Dan Korem is the president of Korem & Associates which has trained over 35,000 professionals rapid-fire profiling skills more than any firm in the world. The Korem Profiling System is used around the globe by the world s leading organizations for productivity applications, including: foreign negotiations, recruiting and hiring, leading teams, and coaching and recruiting collegiate and Olympic athletes. Dan is also the author of The Art of Profiling Reading People Right the First Time 2nd ed and Suburban Gangs The Affluent Rebels.

Review

I have no doubt that had we at Pearl [Mississippi where the first attack occurred in 1997 that started the global trend] identified students with Random Actor traits and applied Korem s intervention techniques, we would not have had an attack. --William H. Dodson, superintendent of Pearl Public Schools, excerpted from his book If Only I Had Known The Life-Saving Solution that Thousands Have Used to Stop School Massacres

Edition details

• Publisher: International Focus Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0963910353
• ISBN 13: 9780963910356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 524