Crime persists in plaguing society, with most crimes committed by repeat offenders. This
causes an increase in the incarcerated population and strains correctional systems …

Can violent offenders who commit acts of instrumental aggression for goal-oriented
purposes such as robbery be distinguished from those who commit acts of reactive (or …

The goal of this study was to determine whether measures of proactive and reactive criminal
thinking display divergent patterns of correlation with outside criteria. A sample of 3,039 …

Self-conscious emotions, such as shame and guilt, have been found by much previous
research to be important factors in individuals' decisions to engage in criminal activity …

Psychopaths show a profound lack of morality and behavioral controls in the presence of
intact general intellectual functioning. Two hallmarks of psychopathy are the persistent …

The General Criminal Thinking (GCT) score of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal
Thinking Styles (PICTS) was correlated with recidivism data obtained on 284 released male …

Recent research has demonstrated jurors' perceptions of a defendant's psychopathic traits
may impact their sentencing recommendations in death penalty and sexually violent …

Recidivism was evaluated in 178 male inmates administered the Psychological Inventory of
Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) and scored on the Level of Service Inventory-Revised …

Abstract Theory of Mind (ToM) is a social perceptual skill that refers to the ability to take
someone else's perspective and infer what others think. The current study examined the …

The neuromoral theory of antisocial behaviors argues that impairment to the neural circuitry
underlying morality provides a common foundation for antisocial, violent, and psychopathic …