The Determining of Proportion Personal and Punishment Variables in Explaining Offender's Criminal Thinking

Subject Areas : Educational

Malek Mirhashemi ¹ , Heidarali Zaree ² , Mehdi Nazariolom ³

1 - Dept of Psychology, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen,Iran.
2 - Dept of Psychology, Khoy Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khoy,Iran
3 - Dept of Psychology, roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen,Iran.

Received: 2015-03-10 Accepted : 2017-12-04 Published : 2018-02-20

Keywords: criminal thinking, prisons, personal and punishment variables,

Abstract :

The main objective this research was to predicting criminal thinking upon personal and punishment variables in offenders. The research method was correlation research. The population consisted of all offenders in prisons of Great Tehran. The sample group (N=326) were chosen via one stage stratified randomly sampling method from prisons of Tehran's Great Prison. The research instrument was Criminal Thinking Styles Scale (Knight et al., 2006).The results of multiple regression analysis indicated that personal (age and birthorder) and punishment (imprisonment duration) variables have significant effect on criminal thinking(p<0.05).

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