Original scientific paper
Differences in Criminal Thinking Styles Considering the Involvement in Criminal Lifestyle
Anita Jandrić Nišević
; Odsjek za kriminologiju, Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Abstract
Theoretical background of research in this paper is The Criminal Lifestyle Theory (Walters, 1998). This theory consist of four behavioral styles: irresponsibility, self-indulgence, interpersonal violence and breaking of social rules. Involvement in criminal lifestyle is assessed through participation in those behavioural styles. A questionnaire for measurement lifestyle involvement is called Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form (LCSF) and it consists of four subscales which describe four behavioral styles, mentioned above.
Walters (1998) proposed that the cognition aspect of his theory is evident in eight related thinking styles: mollification, cutoff, entitlement, power orientation, sentimentality, superoptimism, cognitive indolence and discontinuity.
The mail goal of this paper is to find out the differences beetween criminal thinking styles considering the involvement in criminal lifestyle. The goal of this paper is also to determent the connection between four behavioral styles and eight thinking styles.
The sample consists of 415 male prisoners, placed in the State Centre for Psychosocial Diagnostics in Zagreb between December 2007. and February 2009.
The data were processed by the discriminant analysis and by the canonical-correlation analysis.
The results showed differences in criminal thinking styles between prisoners who are deeply involved in criminal activities and the prisoners that don’t show much activities in criminal lifestyle.
Keywords
criminal lifestyle theory; criminal thinking styles; behavioral styles
Hrčak ID:
56837
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Publication date:
19.7.2010.
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