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Cawood, J.S., & Corcoran, M.H. (2019). Violence Assessment and Intervention: A Practitioner’s Handbook (3rd ed.). Routledge.
Read Chapter 11. This chapter reviews ethical frameworks that apply to threat management teams and issues that can arise in risk assessment for violence.

Fein, R., & Vossekuil, B. (1997, May). Preventing Assassination: A Monograph. Secret Service Exceptional Case Study Project. U.S. Secret Service, National Institute of Justice.
Review chapters 1-3 (pages 5-12) and chapters 7-11 (pages 45-85). This seminal work researched commonalities in stalking cases of public figures and is the basis for much in the field of risk and threat assessment today.

J.R. Meloy & J. Hoffman (Eds.). (2021). International handbook of threat assessment (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.
Read Chapter 1: Threat Assessment and Threat Management
Read Chapters 9, 10, 11
These three chapters will give you a solid foundation in areas related to stalking, intimate partner violence, and femicide and how this relates to risk assessment.

ATAP Code of Ethical Conduct (2010). Association of Threat Assessment Professionals.

Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychology (2013) American Psychological Association. Published in American Psychologist Vol. 68, No. 1, 7–19

American Psychological Association. (2017). Ethical Principals of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.

van der Put, C. E., Gubbels, J., & Assink, M. (2019). Predicting domestic violence: A meta-analysis on the predictive validity of risk assessment tools. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 47, 100–116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2019.03.008
This study looks his study looks at the predictive validity of domestic violence risk assessment tools to give you an overview of the state of risk assessment tools in this area of risk.