Criminal cognitions and personality: what does the PICTS really measure?

Abstract

Introduction The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) is

How many factors are there on the PICTS?

“…The two-factor model was patterned after the earlier Egan et al (2000) and Hollin (2003, 2004) factor analyses. The factor loadings for the eight PICTS thinking style scales on the 'lack of thoughtfulness' and 'willful criminality' factors are delineated in Ta ble 2, and mirror those reported by Egan et al (2000) and Palmer and Hollin (2003).…”

“…The two-factor model was patterned after the earlier Egan et al (2000) and Hollin (2003, 2004) factor analyses. The factor loadings for the eight PICTS thinking style scales on the 'lack of thoughtfulness' and 'willful criminality' factors are delineated in Ta ble 2, and mirror those reported by Egan et al (2000) and Palmer and Hollin (2003). A four-factor model (problem avoidance, interpersonal hostility, self-assertion/deception, 276 denial of harm) was constructed from the original Walters (1995) image factor analysis with oblimin (oblique) rotation such that items were assigned to the factor on which they loaded highest.…”

“…Organizing the 64 PICTS thinking styles into four nested 1 models -a one-factor model, a twofactor model, a four-factor model, and an eight-factor model -the present study explores the comparative fit of each model in two groups of offenders. The onefactor model proposes a single general factor on which all PICTS items load (Palmer and Hollin, 2003;Egan et al, 2000), whereas the two-factor model holds that the PICTS thinking style items can be partitioned into two factors, one that reflects lack of thoughtfulness and the other wilful criminality (Egan et al, 2000;Palmer and Hollin, 2004). While the four-factor model embodies the factor solution from the Walters (1995) validation study, the eight-factor model comprises the eight thinking styles the PICTS was originally designed to measure.…”

Žudikų ir kitus nusikaltimus įvykdžiusių nuteistųjų socialinės informacijos apdorojimo ypatumai1

“…Pavyzdžiui, nagrinėjami asocialios asmenybės taikomi vidinių ir išorinių reikalavimų neutralizacijos 1 Tyrimą finansavo Lietuvos mokslo taryba (SIN-11/2012). 2 Asocialaus elgesio sąvoka apima tiek nusikalstamo, tiek agresyvaus ir kitaip socialinių normų neatitinkančio elgesio formas (Valickas, 1997). būdai (Agnew, 1994;Bandura, 1999Bandura, , 1990Chi-mei, 2008;Maruna, Mann, 2006), tendencingas socialinės informacijos apdorojimas (Crick, Dodge, 1994;Dodge, 1993;Dodge, Rabine, 2004;Dodge, Schwartz, 1997;Fontaine, Dodge, 2006), kognityviniai iškraipymai (pvz., netinkami įsitikinimai, nuostatos, schemos) (Barriga et al, 2008;Collie et al, 2007;Mann, Shingler, 2006;Tremblay, Dozois, 2009;Ward, Casey, 2010;Ward et al, 2007), kriminalinį elgesį skatinantis mąstymo stilius (Egan et al, 2000;Polaschek et al, 2009;Walters, 2006;Walters, Geyer, 2004) ir pan. Kognityviniais veiksniais domimasi vis labiau todėl, kad jie, palyginti su kitais vidiniais veiksniais, geriau atspindi žmogaus prigimtį bei galimybes, o jų įtraukimas leidžia papildyti teorines asocialaus elgesio interpretacijas, prognozuoti asocialaus elgesio pasireiškimą, taip pat išplėsti asocialaus elgesio modifikacijos galimybes.…”

Personality and Symptoms of Psychological Ill Health Among Adult Male Offenders

“…For example, delinquents report lower levels of agreeableness and conscientiousness than nondelinquents (John, Caspi, Robins, Moffitt, & StouthamerLoeber, 1994). Furthermore, high levels of psychoticism and extraversion are related to official and self-reported measures of offending (Aleixo & Norris, 2000), and it has been proposed that delinquent or criminal behavior may be partly explained by personality (Egan, McMurran, Richardson, & Blair, 2000).…”