Dependent: (high risk lifestyles) Situationally limited: (offending is
very closely linked to the situation they find themselves in)
AIM: to identify the defining characteristics of criminal thinking.
METHOD: Psychometric tests (self-reports) and factor analysis.
PARTICIPANTS: opportunity sample – 435 prisoner in six prisons in Texas,
average age 36, age range 18-76, 47% single, 24% married, 25%
divorced/separated. 20% burglary/robbery, 17% drug crimes, 9%
assault/battery, 8% sex crime. Sentences ranged…
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