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'''Mosaic'''
 
'''Mosaic'''
 
is a threat assessment method
 
is a threat assessment method
developed by [[Gavin de Becker]].
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developed by [[Gavin de Becker]], author of
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''The Gift of Fear''.
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The book is about security strategies for dealing with stalkers, assassins, and other forms of civil violence.<ref>Gavin de Becker is widely regarded as our nation's leading expert on the prediction and management of violence. [https://www.gavindebecker.com/bios-gavin_de_becker.cfm]</ref><ref>He developed Mosaic — a threat assessment tool used by the Supreme Court as well as police departments and schools across the country — to predict whether someone will turn violent. [http://www.csoonline.com/read/070104/becker.html ]</ref>
  
*Rarely were incidents of [[school violence]] sudden, impulsive acts. Attackers do not “just snap,” but progress from forming an idea, to planning an attack, to gathering weapons. This process can happen quickly, but sometimes the planning or gathering weapons are discoverable. [http://www.mosaicsystem.com/documents/10-03-06.pdf]
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==Notes==
  
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'''Mosaic''' is also:
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*An adjective meaning "relating to Moses,'' as in ''the Mosaic law.''
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*An art form in which pictures and designs are built up from thousands of small tiles made of colored glass or ceramics. It was an important art form in classical Rome, in the Byzantine empire, and, in the form of geometric designs, through the Islamic world.
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*Rarely were incidents of [[school violence]] sudden, impulsive acts. Attackers do not “just snap,” but progress from forming an idea, to planning an attack, to gathering weapons. This process can happen quickly, but sometimes the planning or gathering weapons are discoverable. [http://www.mosaicsystem.com/documents/10-03-06.pdf]
*The name for the photoelectric imaging surface in the ''iconoscope,'' which was the first successful electronic television camera.
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*The name for the first graphical Web browser software. Mosaic was the direct ancestor of Netscape, which in turn was the model for all subsequent Web browsers.
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[[Category:school violence]]
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[[Category:School Violence]]

Latest revision as of 20:27, February 24, 2017

Mosaic is a threat assessment method developed by Gavin de Becker, author of The Gift of Fear. The book is about security strategies for dealing with stalkers, assassins, and other forms of civil violence.[1][2]

Notes

  1. Gavin de Becker is widely regarded as our nation's leading expert on the prediction and management of violence. [1]
  2. He developed Mosaic — a threat assessment tool used by the Supreme Court as well as police departments and schools across the country — to predict whether someone will turn violent. [2]


  • Rarely were incidents of school violence sudden, impulsive acts. Attackers do not “just snap,” but progress from forming an idea, to planning an attack, to gathering weapons. This process can happen quickly, but sometimes the planning or gathering weapons are discoverable. [3]