High-Threat Decisions [electronic resource] : When It's a Matter of Life and Death / by Stuart Meyers.

1. Introduction -- 2. Literature Review Topic 1¾Decision-Making -- 3. Literature Review Topic 2Adult Learning Theory -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Findings -- 6. Analysis -- 7. Predictive Analytics High-Threat Decision-Making Model and Pattern -- 8. Conclusions and Recommendations.

High-threat decision-making is intrinsic to many domains and carries an individual, organizational, and social responsibility. Tactical and incident commanders make decisions in the high-threat law enforcement context of hostage rescue, armed barricaded suspects, and armed suicidal individuals that can result in successful or catastrophic outcomes. This book describes the experiences and methods of making decisions in these types of extreme environments. The presented research addresses learning strategies that could better prepare leaders for information processing in any high-threat domain, while optimizing speed and accuracy in decision-making. This volume emphasizes the role of adaptive expertise in decision-making, and explains how mental models of recurring patterns are created and retrieved, and why they are necessary for effective situational assessments. This book is ideal for police commanders and executives, emergency response managers, first responders, and criminology researchers. It is also well-suited for professionals seeking further information about improved high-threat decision-making strategies. One of the only resources currently available on high-threat decision-making in a law enforcement context Timely and important topic as it relates to a police response during extreme situations Applicable in multiple high-threat decision-making domains.