Walters Glenn D
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, PA 17954-0700, USA.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2006 Dec;50(6):661-71. doi: 10.1177/0306624X06287192.
The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) was administered to 160 male prisoners on admission to a medium-security federal correctional facility. A total of 106 of these inmates completed the PICTS a second time 6 months later in a routine follow-up of the intake PICTS; the other 54 inmates completed the PICTS a second time approximately 6 months later during the initial session of a psychological group. Results showed that inmates participating in the psychological group were less defensive and endorsed more criminal thinking items on the second administration of the PICTS, whereas inmates participating in the routine follow-up were more defensive and less likely to endorse criminal thinking items on the second PICTS. Despite a general increase in the magnitude of PICTS scores for program participants, the overall pattern of scale elevations (correlations between scales and high-point pairs) was comparable across the two groups.
对160名进入中度安全级别的联邦惩教机构的男性囚犯进行了《犯罪思维方式心理量表》（PICTS）测试。其中共有106名囚犯在6个月后的 intake PICTS 常规随访中第二次完成了PICTS；另外54名囚犯在心理小组的初次会议期间大约6个月后第二次完成了PICTS。结果显示，参加心理小组的囚犯在第二次进行PICTS测试时防御性较低，认可更多的犯罪思维项目，而参加常规随访的囚犯防御性更强，在第二次PICTS测试中认可犯罪思维项目的可能性更小。尽管项目参与者的PICTS分数总体上有所提高，但两组之间量表升高的总体模式（量表与高分对之间的相关性）是可比的。
