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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > law and society > psychology and law > psychological and forensic assessment instruments > Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles
... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > law and courts > law and society > psychology and law > psychological and forensic assessment instruments > Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles

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Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles  

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  • The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) is an 80-item self-report inventory designed to measure eight thinking styles presumed to reinforce, support, and maintain a criminal lifestyle. The eight thinking styles assessed by the PICTS are Mollification, Cutoff, Entitlement, Power Orientation, Superoptimism, Sentimentality, Cognitive Indolence, and Discontinuity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles]

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