RT Article
T1 Assessing criminal thinking in male sex offenders with the psychological inventory of criminal thinking styles
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 36
IS 10
SP 1025
OP 1036
A1 Walters, Glenn D. 1954-
A2 Deming, Adam
A2 Elliott, William N.
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1888592575
AB A sample of 543 male inmates undergoing sex offender treatment completed the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS). As predicted, the PICTS General Criminal Thinking (GCT), Proactive (P), and Reactive (R) scores correlated with sexual risk as measured by the total score on the Static-99. However, only the GCT and P scores correlated with sentence length, and none of the PICTS scores successfully discriminated between a current offense of child molestation and a current offense of adult rape/sexual assault. A confirmatory factor analysis verified previous factor analyses of the PICTS conducted on nonsex offenders whereby the PICTS thinking style scales displayed significantly better fit with a two-factor (proactive, reactive) than with a one-factor (general criminal thinking) model. These results lend preliminary support to the notion that criminal thinking in general and proactive/instrumental criminal thinking in particular have something to offer sex offender assessment.
K1 Criminal thinking
K1 SEX offenders
K1 PICTS
K1 Static-99
DO 10.1177/0093854809342200