ABOUT
Brian R. Abbott, Ph.D. holds a doctorate in psychology and a master’s degree in social work. He is licensed by the States of California and Washington as a clinical psychologist and as a clinical social worker in California. He is a licensed sexual offender evaluator in Illinois. For the past forty years, Dr. Abbott has worked as a clinician, forensic evaluator, author, researcher, and trainer in the area child sexual abuse, as well as in other forms of child abuse and neglect. Dr. Abbott has performed more than 2,000 forensic evaluations for criminal, civil, dependency, delinquency, and family courts in a wide variety of areas related to sexual abuse victims and perpetrators. Dr. Abbott has practiced in the area of sexually violent predators for the past seventeen years. Dr. Abbott has qualified as an expert witness in areas of sexually violent predators in nine states. Subjects of his SVP testimony have included the results of his psychological evaluations of respondents, science-only rebuttal testimony related to diagnosis and risk assessment and writing declarations for or testifying in hearings for habeas petitions and admissibility of evidence, including Daubert and Frye. He has also published peer-reviewed articles related to risk assessment in area sexually violent predators.
SYMPOSIUM SESSION
Shining light on the dark figure of sexual recidivism