Dr. Scalora received his Ph.D. in clinical and law-psychology from the University of Nebraska in 1989 and joined the faculty in 1997. His research interests primarily include targeted violence research involving: threat assessment/terrorism, sexual offending and workplace violence.
Dr. Scalora is currently performing research in a variety of areas related to risk and threat assessment. Concerning sexual offending, he and his colleagues are investigating a range of personality and other risk factors related to sexual recidivism. Dr. Scalora also collaborates with local, state, and federal law enforcement on threat
assessment research assessing predictive risk factors concerning threatening and violent activity toward public officials and institutions. On a related note concerning targeted violence, his research team is also investigating various risk-related issues (e.g., the nature of mental illness, predictive value of precious threatening
behavior) concerning workplace violence.