TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1950//
TI  - Personality Characteristics of Criminals
JO  - American journal of sociology
A1  - Schuessler, Karl F.
A1  - Cressey, D. R.
SP  - 476
EP  - 484
VL  - 55
IS  - 5
N2  - During the last twenty-five years objective personality tests have been widely used to investigate differences between criminals and noncriminals. Of 113 such comparisons, 42 per cent showed differences in favor of the noncriminals, while the remainder were indeterminate. The doubtful validity of many of the obtained differences, as well as the lack of consistency in the combined results, makes it impossible to conclude from these data that criminality and personality elements are associated.<p />
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SN  - 0002-9602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/220588
ID  - ref1
ER  -