Predicting Recidivism with the PICTS Fear-of-Change Scale in a Sample of Medium-Security Inmates Following Their Release from Federal Prison
Published online on June 02, 2026
Abstract
The Prison Journal, Ahead of Print.
The predictive validity of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) Fear-of-Change (FOC) scale was evaluated in 1,101 male prison inmates following their released from custody. The predictive validity of the FOC was tested using a ...
The predictive validity of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) Fear-of-Change (FOC) scale was evaluated in 1,101 male prison inmates following their released from custody. The predictive validity of the FOC was tested using a ...