Effect of test administration set on the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS)

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 661-671

  Walters, Glenn D ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Psychology Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Inmates; PICTS; Psychological set; Test administration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PRISON; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL INVENTORY OF CRMINAL THINKING STYLES;

ADULT; CRIME; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; PRISONERS; PRISONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; THINKING;

EID: 33750319468     PISSN: 0306624X     EISSN: 15526933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X06287192     Document Type: Article

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