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Changes in criminal thinking and identity in novice and experienced inmates: prisonization revisited
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In this article, criminal thinking and identity were assessed in federal prison inmates with no prior prison experience (novice inmates) and 93 inmates with at least one prior adult incarceration and 5 or more years in prison (experienced inmates).Abstract:
Criminal thinking and identity were assessed in 55 federal prison inmates with no prior prison experience (novice inmates) and 93 inmates with at least one prior adult incarceration and 5 or more years in prison (experienced inmates). Changes on the Self-Assertion/Deception scale of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Syles (PICTS) and Centrality subscale of the Social Identity as a Criminal(SIC) questionnaire were congruent with the prisonization hypothesis and a priori predictions that measures of criminal thinking and identity would rise in novice inmates between initial assessment and follow-up but would remain stable in experienced inmates. On the other hand, experienced inmates recorded significant gains on the In-Group Affect subscale of the SIC. Incarceration, it would seem, may promote prisonization in both novice and experienced inmates.read more
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The growth of incarceration in the United States: exploring causes and consequences
TL;DR: Part of the courts, criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology, Law and Society Commons, Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons, Legislation Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, and the Race and Ethnicity Commons.
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Validating the Principles of Effective Intervention: A Systematic Review of the Contributions of Meta-Analysis in the Field of Corrections
TL;DR: The authors summarized the contributions of these quantitative reviews in the field of corrections with special emphasis on the validation of the principles of effective intervention in particular, including specific criteria for optimizing effectiveness along clinically and psychologically relevant dimensions.
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The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS): a review and meta-analysis.
TL;DR: Data from men and women offenders indicate that the PICTS thinking, validity, and content scales possess moderate to moderately high internal consistency and test-retest stability, and two scales are sensitive to program-assisted change beyond what control subjects achieve spontaneously.
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Prevalence of Criminal Thinking among State Prison Inmates with Serious Mental Illness
TL;DR: Results indicated the clinical presentation of mentally disordered offenders is similar to that of psychiatric patients and criminals, suggesting the need for mental health professionals to treat co-occurring issues of mental illness and criminality in correctional mental health treatment programs.
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An Assessment for Criminal Thinking
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the basic psychometric properties of the TCU Criminal Thinking Scales (TCU CTS), a brief self-rating instrument developed to assess cognitive functioning expected to be related to criminal conduct.
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