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Identifier
Thesis
1981
Author
Tirnady, Rachel
Title
Life
Skills
and
Criminal
Thinking
: A
Comparison
Between
Offenders
and
College
Students
Publisher
Central Connecticut State University
Date of Publication
2008
Resource Type
Master's Thesis
Abstract
This
study
examined
criminal
thinking
patterns
and
life
skills
in
college
students
and
prison
inmates
.
Criminal
thinking
patterns
influence
the
way
in
which
individuals
perceive
the
world
and
interact
with
others
and
life
skills
are the
basic
skills
that are
necessary
for
living
independently
as an
adult
.
Approximately
two
hundred
undergraduate
students
were
surveyed
using
the
Ansell-Casey
Life
Skills
Assessment
(ACLSA)
, to
measure
their
life
skills
, and the
Criminogenic
Thinking
Profile
(CTP)
, to
measure
antisocial
thought
patterns
. The
purpose
of this
study
was
two
fold
. The
first
goal
was to
determine
whether
there were
differences
between
college
students
and
inmates
'
scores
on the
CTP
and the
ACLSA
. The
second
goal
was to
determine
whether
there was a
correlation
between
life
skills
and
criminal
thinking
. The
results
from the
college
student
sample
were
compared
to
data
from a
sample
of
offenders
which
was
collected
in a
previous
study
.
Results
indicate
that there were
statistically
significant
differences
between
inmates
and
college
students
, with
inmates
scoring
significantly
higher
on the
total
CTP
score
and the
majority
of the
CTP
subscales
and
college
students
scoring
significantly
higher
on the
ACLSA
.
It
was also
found
that
life
skills
and
criminal
thinking
are
inversely
correlated
. There were
gender
differences
on
scores
from the
CTP
and the
ACLSA
, with
male
inmates
and
male
students
scoring
higher
on the
CTP
and
lower
on the
ACLSA
than their
female
counterparts
.
Possible
limitations
of this
study
include
that
fact
that the
college
student
participants
may
not be
representative
of the
general
population
and the
inmates
who
participated
may
not be
representative
of
offenders
in
general
and that
students
may
not have had as
many
real
life
experiences
to
base
their
responses
on
compared
to the
inmates
,
who
were an
average
of
ten
years
older
than the
students
,
which
may
have
affected
the
report
of
skills
.
Future
research
could
look
at a
different
sample
of
adults
from the
general
population
,
such
as a
church
group
.
Subject
Ansell-Casey Life Skills Assessment
College students -- Life skills assessment
Criminals -- Life skills assessment
Criminal psychology -- Testing
Department
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Advisor
Mitchell, Damon, 1969-
Type
Text
Digital Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
OCLC number
713734348
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