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37 J. Offender Rehab. 1 (2003)

handle is hein.journals/wjor37 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Vol. 37 (1), 2003. Pp. 1-10. http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=J076 D 2003 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. 10.1300/J076v37n01 01 Development of a Self-Report Measure of Outcome Expectancies for Crime GLENN D. WALTERS Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, PA ABSTRACT A group of 193 male inmates served as subjects for a study in which the development and initial validation of a 16-item self-report mea- sure of outcome expectancies for crime (OEC) is detailed. Analyses pro- duced internal consistency estimates (Cronbach alpha coefficient) of between .73 and .91 and 10-week test-retest stability correlations of be- tween .40 and .48 for the five OEC scales (total positive, positive social, positive control, positive identity, negative). The total positive expectan- cies, positive social expectancies, and positive control expectancies scales were found to correlate with the Current and Historical Criminal Thinking scales of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS), while negative expectancies for crime were significantly lower in inmates evaluating the anticipated consequences of property crime relative to in- mates assessing the expected outcomes of a violent or drug offense. Finally, a confirmatory factor analysis supported the four-factor structure of the OEC (positive social, positive control, positive identity, negative), while multidi- mensional scaling revealed that outcome expectancies for crime fall along a single dimension: positive-negative. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HA WORTH. E-mail address: <docdelivery@ haworthpress.com> Website: <htp://www.HaworthPress.com> @ 203 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.] KEYWORDS Outcome expectancies, crime consequences, self-report

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