Shulman aids Secret Service with threat assessment analysis

Stuart Shulman, assistant professor of Political Science, was part of an expert panel that conducted a workshop Sept. 22-23 for the U.S. Secret Service on the relationship between threatening communications sent to those protected by the agency and actual behavior.

Shulman, who also directs the Qualitative Data Analysis Program, was appointed to the Committee to Investigate the Relationship between Threatening Communications and Actual Behavior by the National Research Council’s Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences. The panel design and led the workshop for the Secret Service’s intelligence division.

According to the National Research Council, research on the relationship of communication to risky behavior does not exist. The workshop was a first step toward examining communication factors and sparking a new research initiative within the Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC). Findings from the workshop will provide NTAC with a foundation to build stronger strategies and more effective tools to defend those under Secret Service protection.

October 19, 2009.

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