Newberry, Michelle and Shuker, Richard (2012) Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) profiles of offenders and their relationship to institutional misconduct and risk of reconviction. Journal of Personality Assessment, 94 (6), 586-592. (doi:10.1080/00223891.2012.669220).
Abstract
This article investigates whether particular scales of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991 Morey, L. C. 1991. Personality Assessment Inventory: Professional manual, Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources. [Google Scholar]) are associated with institutional misconduct and risk of reconviction among 268 offenders in a therapeutic community prison. A moderate positive correlation was found between the Antisocial Behavior subscale of the PAI and general institutional misconduct. Moderate positive correlations were also found between the Antisocial Features, Aggression, and Drug Problems scales and risk of reconviction as measured by the Offender Group Reconviction Scale (Francis, Soothill, & Humphries, 2007; Taylor, 1999 Taylor, R. 1999. Predicting reconvictions for sexual and violent offences using the Revised Offender Group Reconviction Scale (Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate, Research Findings No. 104). London, England: Home Office [Google Scholar]). In addition, receiver operating characteristic analyses showed that certain PAI cut scores had utility in identifying prisoners who had engaged in institutional misconduct and who posed a high risk of reconviction.
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