Predicting Release and Disciplinary Outcome With the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles: Female Data

• NCJ Number: 178033
• Journal: Legal and Criminological Psychology Volume: 4 Dated: 1999 Pages: 15-21
• Author(s): Glenn D. Walters; William N. Elliott
• Date Published: 1999
• Length: 7 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United Kingdom

Annotation

This article assesses the predictive validity of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) in female offenders.

Abstract

The first of two studies correlated outcome data on 118 female inmates released from a state correctional facility with the PICTS thinking style scales. A second study correlated disciplinary adjustment data on 100 female federal inmates with the PICTS thinking style scales. In the first study, the PICTS Sentimentality scale correlated moderately with subsequent release outcome independent of subject ethnic status and confining offense. In the second study, the PICTS Cutoff, Entitlement, Power Orientation, Cognitive Indolence and Discontinuity scales correlated moderately with subsequent disciplinary outcome independent of subject age and ethnic status. These findings lend preliminary support to the practical utility of the PICTS thinking style scales as predictors of release and disciplinary outcome in female offenders, but suggest that release outcome and disciplinary adjustment are not predicted by the same PICTS thinking style scales. Tables, references