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Assessing the Danger of “Lone Actor Terrorists“
doc. PhDr. Ludmila Čírtková, CSc., dr. h. c., Police Academy of Czech Republic in Prague, Faculty of Security Management, Department of Social Science

The article deals with the attacks on public area targets from the forensic psychological point of view. It focuses on summarizing the current research dealing with lone actor terrorists. The research delivers sets of psychological risk factors manifested in the behaviour and in the personality of the person of concern, used in risk assessment. The author demonstrates the administration of TRAP 18 in predictive evaluation of a lone actor terrorist in the Czech Republic.
Key words: lone actor terrorists, lonely wolf, radicalisation, risk assessment, TRAP 18.


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