RT Article
T1 Predicting reconviction using the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles with English prisoners
JF Legal and criminological psychology
VO 9
IS 1
SP 57
OP 68
A1 Palmer, Emma J.
A2 Hollin, Clive R.
LA English
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1847408281
AB Purpose. The purpose of this study was to investigate the utility of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) in predicting reconviction in a sample of male prisoners. Method. The PICTS was administered to 174 incarcerated male offenders at the point of their release from prison. Reconviction data were collected at a 2-year follow-up. Results. Of the eight PICTS scales, only superoptimism differed significantly between reconvicted and non-reconvicted prisoners, even when age and number of previous convictions were controlled for. Reconvicted offenders scored significantly higher on superoptimism, indicating a more criminal attitude. This finding was supported by a sequential logistic regression, where superoptimism contributed significant predictive power to predicting reconviction beyond a model containing age and number of previous convictions. Conclusions. The results are compared with previous research using the PICTS to predict release outcome. The utility of the PICTS as a predictor for release outcome is discussed.
DO 10.1348/135532504322776852