Walters Glenn D
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Minersville, PA 17954, USA.
Crim Behav Ment Health. 2007;17(3):184-8. doi: 10.1002/cbm.649.
The lifestyle theory of criminal behaviour maintains that criminal thinking is hierarchically organized and that certain features of an individual's general world view should correspond with specific criminal thinking styles.
It was predicted that the eight Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) thinking style scales would correlate with the mechanism, fatalism, inequity and malevolence poles of the four World-View Rating Scale (WVRS) dimensions.
A group of 140 male medium security prison inmates rated themselves on the four dimensions of the WVRS and completed the PICTS.
All eight PICTS thinking style scales correlated with mechanism, inequity and malevolence, but only six of the eight PICTS scales correlated with fatalism. In addition, two of four correlations specified a priori (i.e. between mollification and inequity and between power orientation and malevolence) proved significant in this study.
The present findings suggest that two levels of a cognitive system held to be instrumental in maintaining a criminal lifestyle - criminal thinking styles and global belief systems - may be meaningfully linked.
犯罪行为的生活方式理论认为，犯罪思维是层次化组织的，个人总体世界观的某些特征应与特定的犯罪思维方式相对应。
预计犯罪思维方式心理量表（PICTS）的八个思维方式量表将与世界观评定量表（WVRS）四个维度的机械主义、宿命论、不公平和恶意极点相关。
一组140名中等安全级别的男性监狱囚犯对自己在WVRS的四个维度上进行评分，并完成PICTS。
PICTS的所有八个思维方式量表都与机械主义、不公平和恶意相关，但PICTS的八个量表中只有六个与宿命论相关。此外，本研究中事先指定的四个相关性中的两个（即缓和与不公平之间以及权力取向与恶意之间）被证明具有显著性。
目前的研究结果表明，被认为有助于维持犯罪生活方式的认知系统的两个层面——犯罪思维方式和全球信仰系统——可能存在有意义的联系。
