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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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