The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles
Part I: Reliability and Preliminary Validity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19600315 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenn D Walters (0000-0002-7219-1542, Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 307-325 |
| Publication date | 1995-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Criminal Justice and Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-8548 • E-ISSN: 1552-3594 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0093854895022003008 |
| OpenAlex | W2145795482 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 44 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article describes the evolution, standardization, and preliminary validation of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS), an instrument designed to measure thinking styles believed to be associated with serious patterns of criminal conduct. Responses obtained from 450 federal prison inmates were used to establish norms for the PICTS, assess the reliability of the various PICTS scales, and investigate preliminary validity issues. The results indicate that maximum-security subjects attained significantly higher scores on the PICTS thinking scales than minimum- and medium-security subjects and that the PICTS possesses sufficient reliability and initial validity to warrant continued investigation
Construct validity · Criminology · Incremental validity · Medical emergency · Poison control · Prison · Psychological Testing · Psychometrics · Reliability (semiconductor) · Warrant · Applied Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Medicine · Mental Health Research Topics · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology
Evaluating the Predictive Validity of the Compas Risk and Needs Assessment System
The Prediction of Violence in Adult Offenders
The Relationship Between Masculinity, Femininity, and Criminal Thinking in Male and Female Offenders
Psychometric Properties and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Spanish Version of the Maudsley Violence Questionnaire among Adolescent Students
Fagin’s Criminal Thought in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist
Parenthood and family in the opinions of adult offenders
The Role of Negative Parental Influences and Criminal Thinking in Juvenile Offending Behaviors
Diagnostic Moderators of the Risk-Recidivism Relationship for Offenders with Mental Illness
Effectiveness of Ellis’s Rational-Emotional Approach on Criminal Thinking and Law-Evasion in Male Prisoners
Effectiveness of Self-Compassion Intervention on Criminal Thinking in Male Prisoners
Reception to and Efficacy of a Serious Video Game for Correctional Intervention
Changing Outcomes in Jail? Evaluating Treatment Completion and Change Among Adults With Serious Mental Illness
The Relevance of the Dual Systems Model for Social Learning Theory
Risk, Needs, and Behavior
The Gendered Nature of Criminogenic Thinking Patterns Among Justice-Involved Clients
Predicting Future Intimate Partner Violence with Past Intimate Partner Violence
Assessment and Modification of General Criminal Attitudes Among Men Who Have Sexually Offended
Predicting Recidivism with the PICTS Fear-of-Change Scale in a Sample of Medium-Security Inmates Following Their Release from Federal Prison
Predicting Prison Misconduct With the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles
Criminal Thinking in a Sample of Men and Women Attending a Multi-Site Batterer Intervention Program
Does Criminal Versatility Predict Recidivism? Results from Cox Proportional-Hazards and Binomial Logistic Regression Analyses
Parental Control as a Stimulus for Youth Control
Validation of the Offending-Related Attitudes Questionnaire of CRIME-Pics II Scale (Chinese)
Certainty of Punishment and Criminal Thinking
Psychosocial Balance Sheets
Relationship between emotion regulation and aggression mediated by criminal thinking in women convicted of violent offenses
The First Step in Validating the Criminogenic Cognitions Scale on a Sample of Romanian Prison Inmates
Exploring the Factor Structure of Criminogenic Cognitions in Incarcerated Males
Criminal attitudes to violence
Dynamic risk assessment
Proactive and reactive criminal thinking, psychological inertia, and the crime continuity conundrum
An exploration of the association between criminal thinking and community program attrition
In and out of prison
Antisocial cognition and crime continuity
Black–white differences in positive outcome expectancies for crime
Changes in inmates' substance use and dependence from pre-incarceration to one year post-release
Criminal lifestyle, psychopathy, and prison adjustment among female inmates
Mediating the Mediator
Mediating Proactive Criminal Thinking with Perceived Parental Acceptance of Child Delinquency
Psychological Inertia Revisited
Proactive Criminal Thinking and Criminal Identity in Adult Probationers Progressing Through a Day Reporting Program
Access to Justice via Parole
Violence risk assessment
The Role of Criminal Social Identity in the Relationship between Criminal Friends and Criminal Thinking Style within a Sample of Recidivistic Prisoners
| Unique citing works | 44 |
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| Citations per year | 1,76 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 44 |