@article{ref1,
title="Predicting reconviction using the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles with English prisoners",
journal="Legal and criminological psychology",
year="2004",
author="Palmer, Emma J. and Hollin, Clive R.",
volume="9",
number="1",
pages="57-68",
abstract="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.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1355-3259",
doi="10.1348/135532504322776852",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/135532504322776852"
}