Informal Assessment: Direct and Indirect Procedures

When it comes to informal assessment, direct and indirect procedures are both essential for understanding what drives an individual's criminal behavior. 

What is Informal Assessment?
Direct and indirect procedures are two types of informal assessment designed to uncover the motives of a violent criminal. A direct informal assessment involves asking the violent offender a series of questions to gain a greater understanding of his or her psychology. Informal assessment is the process of interviewing those who know the offender to find out what makes him or her tick. 

Roy Hazelwood and Dick Ault, of the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, were the experts that developed the first indirect personality assessment questionnaire. Now both retired from the FBI,  Hazelwood is now Vice President of the Academy Group and Ault is an Academy Group practitioner.

Informal assessment, both direct and indirect procedures, are covered in the Academy Group's course "A Study of Followers: Interpersonal Stalkers."� In addition to informal assessment, direct and indirect procedures, attendees will learn about types of stalkers, types of personality disorders, how to deal with stalking victims, case studies, and much more. 

Informal assessment, direct and indirect procedures, are also covered in the Academy Group's Threat Analysis Seminar along with understanding abnormal and criminal psychology, defusing angry and hostile subjects, interviewing mentally disordered subjects, and other topics. 

Just as important as tracking down the offender is assessing his or her motives and psychology to discover the intent. Through informal assessment, direct and indirect procedures, the pathological criminal can be sentenced adequately in court and be kept away from the community.