@article{ref1,
title="The latent structure of the criminal lifestyle: a taxometric analysis of the lifestyle criminality screening form and psychological inventory of criminal thinking styles",
journal="Criminal justice and behavior",
year="2007",
author="Walters, Glenn D.",
volume="34",
number="12",
pages="1623-1637",
abstract="Three taxometric procedures, mean above minus below a cut (MAMBAC), maximum eigenvalue (MAXEIG), and latent mode factor analysis (L-Mode), were applied to the Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form (LCSF), the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS), and a combination of the two in a group of 771 male federal prisoners. It was hypothesized that the rating scale (LCSF) would demonstrate taxonic structure and the self-report measure (PICTS) would demonstrate dimensional structure. The PICTS--dimensional relationship was found but the LCSF--taxon relationship failed to surface. When the four most valid and factorially meaningful PICTS scales were combined with the four LCSF sub-scales, there was clear and consistent evidence of dimensional structure in the criminal lifestyle.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0093-8548",
doi="10.1177/0093854807307028",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854807307028"
}