Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Hatch-Maillette, M. A.
Right arrow Articles by Baumgartner, J. V.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Hatch-Maillette, M. A.
Right arrow Articles by Baumgartner, J. V.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Criminal Thinking Patterns: Are Child Molesters Unique?

Mary A. Hatch-Maillette

Mario J. Scalora

Department of Psychology, 238 Burnett Hall, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0308, USA

Matthew T. Huss

Creighton University, Department of Psychology, 2501 California, Omaha, NE 68178, USA

Jerome V. Baumgartner

This study examined the ability of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) to reliably differentiate between men with and without histories of child molestation crimes at a maximum-security state hospital forensic mental health unit. Results showed that as hypothesized, molesters (n = 28) were less likely than non-sex offenders (n = 35) to exhibit thinking errors captured by the Cutoff, Entitlement, and to a lesser extent, the Cognitive Indolence, Discontinuity, and Power Orientation scales of the PICTS. The findings support its use in targeting general criminal thinking errors for treatment in mixed-offender populations, as well as its use in sex offender populations to augment other sex offense cognitive distortion measures when designing treatment.

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 45, No. 1, 102-117 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X01451007
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Criminal Justice and BehaviorHome page
G. D. Walters, A. Deming, and W. N. Elliott
Assessing Criminal Thinking in Male Sex Offenders With the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles
Criminal Justice and Behavior, October 1, 2009; 36(10): 1025 - 1036.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Sex AbuseHome page
F. McCrady, K. Kaufman, M. W. Vasey, A. Q. Barriga, R. S. Devlin, and J. C. Gibbs
It's All About Me: A Brief Report of Incarcerated Adolescent Sex Offenders' Generic and Sex-Specific Cognitive Distortions
Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, September 1, 2008; 20(3): 261 - 271.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 AssessmentHome page
G. D. Walters
The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS): A Review and Meta-Analysis
Assessment, September 1, 2002; 9(3): 278 - 291.
[Abstract] [PDF]