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The next possibility for victimization in a violent crime, is going to be basically poor judgment.

It is whether or not your children are choosing to go with another group of kids where they shouldn't be going, or your daughter or son, who might be in college and they're making the bad judgment to go to a bar. Possibly they go to a place that they know they shouldn't be going, or get into a car that they shouldn't be getting into.

I understand that this isn't the face of an individual of the actual subject. This is actually your child.

But I want to include this in here, because it's really important to understand when we're talking about assessing threats.

Could it have been poor judgment for your son to go into a bar using his fake id? And then they happen to be in the face of a criminal where a robbery is going on?

... Or there's a gang initiation that just happened ...Or something was about to escalate that had nothing to do with your son being there, and he happened to be there because of poor judgment. He happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time at the same time.

Yes, absolutely.

But I want to bring the issue of judgment forward, because this can actually influence whether or not your child is going to become a victim of a violent crime.

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