ABS Community Research, Inc.

Abusive Behavioral Syndrome (ABS) is a criminal psychological profile, designed for interdisciplinary use by criminal justice and mental health. The experimental diagnostic criteria is for use by justice to assist in criminal profiling, to determine behavioral patterns and map incidents. The diagnostic criteria is also for use by mental health, to determine the psychiatric state of individual perpetrators, and engage effective intervention.

Abusive Behavioral Syndrome includes six (6) core sets of criteria: abusive behavior, addiction, neglect, dysfunctionalism, diagnostic level, and remorse.

Abusive Behavioral Syndrome is applicable to all forms of abuse, both violent and non-violent, including crimes against humanity. There are over seventy (70) abusive populations.

This diagnostic profile has been researched by the founder in community justice environments, including specialized courts (drug courts, domestic violence courts, juvenile justice roundtable). In practice, Abusive Behavioral Syndrome has been used over a period of years in a violence reduction program in Iran.

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Please contact Velma Anne Ruth, M.Ed. to view founding documents, related materials, and request leadership contacts: velma@abscommunityresearch.org