# ABC Model **Entity class:** Violent-extremism analytic framework **Aliases:** Attitudes-Behaviors Corrective Model **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition The **Attitudes-Behaviors Corrective (ABC) Model** separates radical attitudes from violent behavior. It emphasizes that many people with extreme beliefs never act violently and that some violent actors have shallow ideological commitment. This distinction constrains inference from speech or association to operational threat. ## Relationships - **proposed by:** [[wiki/Randy Borum|Randy Borum]]. - **corrects:** [[wiki/Conveyor Belt Model|Conveyor Belt Model]]. - **relevant to:** [[wiki/Countering Violent Extremism|CVE]] and false-positive control in [[wiki/Counterterrorism Intelligence|Counterterrorism Intelligence]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]]