Exploring the Sexual & Violent Offender
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Date: Monday, September 22, 2025
Ends On: Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Registration Deadline: Sunday, September 21, 2025
Class Time(s): 08 00-04 00
Ends On: Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Registration Deadline: Sunday, September 21, 2025
Class Time(s): 08 00-04 00
Instructor Location:
Plainfield Fire Protection District (Headquarters)
Instructor: Scott A. Johnson, MA, LP, has a Master's Degree in Counseling & Psychological Services from St. Mary's College. He is a Licensed Psychologist (Minnesota). He has over 33 years-experience addressing sexual predators as a forensic psychologist, author, educator, and police trainer. He trains and consults with law enforcement and U.S. Probation nationwide addressing sexual predators and violent offenders. He was involved in the civil commitment of sexual predators for the state of Minnesota for several years. He has taught at numerous colleges and universities. He is the author of several book chapters, booklets, research, numerous journal articles and other professional materials. Mr. Johnson is a forensic psychologist. He is a regular guest on Nancy Grace.Plainfield Fire Protection District (Headquarters)
23738 W. 135th Street
Plainfield, IL 60544
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Plainfield, IL 60544
Member's Fee: $0
Non-Member & Civilian Fee: $0
Goals include:
• Identifying & understanding the characteristics and typologies of the sexual offender and violent offender and identify forensic and clinical concerns, personality, offender strategies, grooming strategies.
• Understanding the role alcohol plays in sexual offenses & violent offenses.
• Understanding the role that pornography plays in reinforcing sexual offense behavior.
• Understanding the psychopathic abuser & psychopathic sexual offender.
• Understanding how to investigate, interrogate, and assess the sexual offender and violent offender and how to gather pertinent and invaluable information.
• Understand strategies to effectively interview sex offenders, including juvenile and adult male and female offenders, victims, and psychopaths.
• Learning to detect truth from deception via clinical interview & interrogation & how to effectively interview/interrogate the sexual offender & violent offender.
• Identifying and understanding the profiling strategies necessary to develop a useful and effective profile of a violent offender.
Funded in Partnership with the Illinois Law Enforcement Training & Standards Board This training covers the following mandates:
- Civil Rights - 0.50 hours
- Constitutional / Proper Use of LE Authority - 1.00 hours
- Crisis Intervention - 1.00 hours
- Human Rights - 2.00 hours
- Procedural Justice - 9.50 hours
- Lead Homicide Investigator - 16.0 hours
