The Latent Structure of the Criminal Lifestyle: A Taxometric Analysis of the Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form and Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles

摘要: Three taxometric procedures, mean above minus below a cut (MAMBAC), maximum eigenvalue (MAXEIG), and latent mode factor analysis (L-Mode), were applied to the Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form (LCSF), Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS), combination two in group 771 male federal prisoners. It was hypothesized that rating scale (LCSF) would demonstrate taxonic structure self-report measure (PICTS) dimensional structure. The PICTS—dimensional relationship found but LCSF—taxon failed surface. When four most valid factorially meaningful PICTS scales combined with LCSF sub-scales, there clear consistent evidence criminal lifestyle.