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The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS)

A Review and Meta-Analysis

Glenn D. Walters

Federal Correctional Institution

The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) is an 80-item self-report measure designed to assess crime-supporting cognitive patterns. Data from men (N = 450) and women (N = 227) offenders indicate that the PICTS thinking, validity, and content scales possess moderate to moderately high internal consistency and test-retest stability. Metaanalyses of studies in which the PICTS has been administered reveal that besides correlating with measures of past criminality, several of the PICTS thinking and content scales are capable of predicting future adjustment/release outcome at a low but statistically significant level, and two scales (En, CUR) are sensitive to program-assisted change beyond what control subjects achieve spontaneously. The factor structure of the PICTS is then examined with the aid of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, the results of which denote the presence of two major and two minor factors.

Key Words: criminal • assessment • PICTS • thinking styles

Assessment, Vol. 9, No. 3, 278-291 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1073191102009003007
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