RT Article
T1 Criminal Thinking Patterns: Are Child Molesters Unique?
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 45
IS 1
SP 102
OP 117
A2 Huss, Matthew T.
A2 Baumgartner, Jerome V.
A2 Scalora, Mario J.
LA English
YR 2001
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639640258
AB This study examined the ability of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) to reliably differentiate between men with and without histories of child molestation crimes at a maximum-security state hospital forensic mental health unit. Results showed that as hypothesized, molesters (n = 28) were less likely than non-sex offenders (n = 35) to exhibit thinking errors captured by the Cutoff, Entitlement, and to a lesser extent, the Cognitive Indolence, Discontinuity, and Power Orientation scales of the PICTS. The findings support its use in targeting general criminal thinking errors for treatment in mixed-offender populations, as well as its use in sex offender populations to augment other sex offense cognitive distortion measures when designing treatment
K1 USA
K1 Kindesmissbrauch
K1 Täterpersönlichkeit