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Department of Psychology

Faculty

Mario Scalora   
Office: 337 Burnett Hall
(402) 472-3126
mscalora1@unl.edu

Research team webpage


Dr. Scalora received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 1989 and joined the faculty in 1997.

His research interests addresses various types of targeted violence issues including:
threats to public institutions and infrastructure/threat assessment
sexual offending &
workplace violence.

Dr. Scalora is currently performing research in a variety of areas related to targeted violence nd threat assessment. This research continues to involve collaboration with state and federal agencies dealing with threat management and counterterrorism issues. 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. Concerning sexual offending, he and his colleagues are investigating a range of personality and other risk factors related to sexual recidivism. 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 multiple samples of workplace violence.

Dr. Scalora currently supervises graduate students performing clinical service and research within the state's Forensic Mental Health Service as well as within the Departmetn of Correctional Services. His graduate teaching activity currently includes courses on forensic assessment, personality assessment, and the supervision of clinical practica.
 

Representative Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

*Scalora, M. J., & Garbin C. P. (2003). Toward a Multivariate Model of Sex Offender Recidivism. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 47, 309- 323.

*Scalora, M. J., Baumgartner, J. V., & Plank, G. L. (2003). The Relationship of Mental Illness to Targeted Contact Behavior Toward State Government Agencies and Officials. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 21, 239-249.

*Scalora, M. J., Washington, D. O., & Casady, T. (2003). Non-Fatal Workplace Violence: Risk Factors: Data From a Police Contact Sample. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 18, 310-327.

*Scalora, M.J., Baumgartner, J. V., Callaway, D., Zimmerman, W., Hatch-Maillette, M. A., Covell, C. N., Palarea, R. E., Krebs, J. A., & Washington, D. O. (2002). An epidemiological assessment of problematic contacts to members of Congress. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 47, 1360-1364.

*Baumgartner, J. V., Scalora, M. J., & Huss, M. T. (2002). Assessment of the Wilson Sex Fantasy Questionnaire among child molesters and non-sexual forensic offenders. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 14, 19-33.

*Elbogen, E. B., Mercado, C., Tomkins, A. J., & Scalora, M. J. (2002). Perceived relevance of factors for violence risk assessment: A survey of clinicians. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 1, 37-47.

*Covell, C. N., & Scalora, M. J. (2002). Empathic deficits in sexual offenders: An integration of affective, social, and cognitive constructs. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 7, 251-270.

*Hatch-Maillette, M. A., Scalora, M. J. (2002). Gender, sexual harassment, workplace violence and risk assessment: Convergence around psychiatric staff’s perceptions of public safety.
Aggression and Violent Behavior, 7, 271-291.

*Baumgartner, J.B., Scalora, M.J., & Plank, G.L. (2001). Case Characteristics of Threats Toward State Officials Investigated by a Midwestern State. Journal of Threat Assessment, 1, 41-60.

*Calkins-Mercado, C., Elbogen, E., & Scalora, M. J., (2001). Judgments of dangerousness: Differential risk assessment for sex offenders v. civil psychiatric patients. Journal of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Law, 8, 146- 153.

*Calkins-Mercado, C., & Scalora, M. J. (2001). Child molestation: Factors related to level of violence. Journal of Threat Assessment, 1, 21-34.

Elbogen, E. B., Mercado, C., Tomkins, A. J., & Scalora, M. J. (2001). Clinical practice and violence risk assessment: Availability of MacArthur Risk Factors. In D. Farrington, C. R. Hollin, & M. McMurran (Eds.) Sex and violence: The psychology of crimes and risk assessment (pp. 38-55). New York: Routledge.

*Elbogen, E. B., Williams, A., Kim, D., Tomkins, A. J., & Scalora, M. J. (2001). Gender and violence risk assessment in psychiatric populations. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 6, 215-228.

*Hatch-Maillette, M. A., Scalora, M. J., Huss, M. T., & Baumgartner, J. V. (2001). Criminal thinking patterns: Are sex offenders unique? International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 45, 102-117.

Scalora, M. J. (1999). No place else to go: The changing role of state forensic hospitals. New Directions in Mental Health, 84, 59-70.
 

More Information

For more information regarding Dr. Scalora's research activities, please review the Forensic Research Team's website at http://psycweb.unl.edu/forensic/