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| G D WaltersSummaryAffiliation: Federal Correctional Institution Country: USA Publications
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Developmental trajectories, transitions, and nonlinear dynamical systems: a model of crime deceleration and desistanceGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, P O Box 700, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol 46:30-44. 2002..The practical implications of this model are discussed and suggestions for future research are outlined...- Predicting institutional adjustment and recidivism with the psychopathy checklist factor scores: a meta-analysisGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution-Schuylkill, P.O. Box 700, Minersville, Pennsylvania 17954-0700, USA
Law Hum Behav 27:541-58. 2003..There was less differentiation between Factors 1 and 2 on measures of institutional adjustment... - Postdicting arrests for proactive and reactive aggression with the PICTS Proactive and Reactive composite scalesGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania 17954 0700, USA
J Interpers Violence 22:1415-30. 2007..The implications of these results for the construct validity of the PICTS composite scales and for matching offenders to interventions are discussed... - Taxometric analysis of the antisocial features scale of the personality assessment inventory in federal prison inmatesGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania 17954 0700, USA
Assessment 14:351-60. 2007.... - The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles and Level of Service Inventory-Revised: Screening Version as predictors of official and self-reported disciplinary infractionsGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, P O Box 700, Minersville, PA 17954, USA
Law Hum Behav 32:454-62. 2008.... 
The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles and Psychopathy Checklist: screening version as incrementally valid predictors of recidivismGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution, FCI Schuylkill, P O Box 700, Schuylkill, Minersville, Pennsylvania 17954 0700, USA
Law Hum Behav 33:497-505. 2009....- Predicting recidivism with the Psychopathy Checklist: are factor score composites really necessary?Glenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA
Psychol Assess 23:552-7. 2011.... - Where do we draw the line? Assigning cases to subsamples for MAMBAC, MAXCOV, and MAXEIG taxometric analysesGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
Assessment 17:321-33. 2010..Alcohol misuse data obtained from a group of male prisoners were used to illustrate relationships observed in the Monte Carlo study... - Latent structure of a two-dimensional model of antisocial personality disorder: construct validation and taxometric analysisGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Minersville, Pennsylvania 17954 0700, USA
J Pers Disord 23:647-60. 2009..It is reasoned that the two-dimensional model may eventually be capable of bridging the gap between childhood aggression and adult criminality as well as provide guidance to clinicians working with criminal offenders... - Are exaggerated health complaints continuous or categorical? A taxometric analysis of the Health Problem Overstatement ScaleGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, Minersville, Pennsylvania, USA
Psychol Assess 21:219-26. 2009..These findings call for more research on the extent to which the different domains of feigning share 1 or more dimensions in common... - To sum or not to sum: taxometric analysis with ordered categorical assessment itemsGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institute Schuylkill, USA
Psychol Assess 21:99-111. 2009..Implications for the use and further study of the taxometric method in assessment research are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)... - Correlations between the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles and World-View Rating Scale in male federal prisonersGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Minersville, PA 17954, USA
Crim Behav Ment Health 17:184-8. 2007..The lifestyle theory of criminal behaviour maintains that criminal thinking is hierarchically organized and that certain features of an individual's general world view should correspond with specific criminal thinking styles... - Feigned neurocognitive deficit: taxon or dimension?Glenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 31:584-93. 2009..The fact that feigned neurocognitive symptomatology is ordered along a continuum rather than bifurcating into distinct categories has important implications for theory, research, and clinical practice... - Malingering as a categorical or dimensional construct: the latent structure of feigned psychopathology as measured by the SIRS and MMPI-2Glenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, Minersville, Pennsylvania 17954 0700, USA
Psychol Assess 20:238-47. 2008..The theoretical and clinical practice implications of these findings are discussed... - Taxometric analysis of the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy scaleGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
J Pers Assess 90:491-8. 2008.... - Effect of a longer versus shorter test-release interval on recidivism prediction with the psychological inventory of criminal thinking styles (PICTS)Glenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol 53:665-78. 2009..The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed... - Violence risk assessment and facet 4 of the Psychopathy Checklist: predicting institutional and community aggression in two forensic samplesGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, Minersville, PA 17954, USA
Assessment 17:259-68. 2010..These findings suggest that Facet 4 and its parcels may play a role in violence risk assessment, although the generalizability of these findings to various forensic settings and contexts requires further study... - Taxometrics, polytomous constructs, and the comparison curve fit index: a Monte Carlo analysisGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
Psychol Assess 22:149-56. 2010..From these results it is concluded that using the simulated data curve approach and averaging across procedures is an effective way of distinguishing between dimensional (1-class) and categorical (2 or more classes) latent structure... - Is hypersexuality dimensional? Evidence for the DSM-5 from general population and clinical samplesGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, P O Box 700, Minersville, PA 17954, USA
Arch Sex Behav 40:1309-21. 2011..Additionally, dimensional assessment of Hypersexual Disorder should be part of clinical diagnostic practice... - Taking the next step: combining incrementally valid indicators to improve recidivism predictionGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, PA, USA
Assessment 18:227-33. 2011..Correlational and receiver operating characteristic analyses revealed that the unweighted and weighted summed scores produced equivalent results and that both improved significantly on the results of the five contributing indicators... - Screening for malingering/exaggeration of psychiatric symptomatology in prison inmates using the PICTS Confusion and Infrequency scalesGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill Psychology, PO Box 700, U S 81 and Route 901, Minersville, PA 17954, USA
J Forensic Sci 56:444-9. 2011..These results suggest that the INF scale can potentially serve as an effective initial screening measure for malingering/exaggeration in inmates presenting with mental health complaints... - In search of the psychopathic sexuality taxon: indicator size does matterGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, U S A
Behav Sci Law 29:23-39. 2011..Consistent with the vast majority of earlier research,our results suggest that psychopathy (with or without coercive and precocious sexuality) is a dimensional construct... - The latent structure of life-course-persistent antisocial behavior: is Moffitt's developmental taxonomy a true taxonomy?Glenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, P O Box 700, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 79:96-105. 2011..The purpose of this study was to determine whether life-course-persistent (LCP) and adolescence-limited (AL) antisocial behavior form distinct categories or lie along a common dimension... - The latent structure of childhood aggression: a taxometric analysis of self-reported and teacher-rated aggression in Israeli schoolchildrenGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
Psychol Assess 22:628-37. 2010..Childhood aggression, it would seem, differs quantitatively along a dimension (degree of aggression) rather than bifurcating into qualitatively distinct categories (aggressive vs. nonaggressive)... 
Dementia: continuum or distinct entity?Glenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, Psychology Services, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
Psychol Aging 25:534-44. 2010..The implications of these results for classification, assessment, etiology, and prevention are discussed...- Predicting recidivism with the psychological inventory of criminal thinking styles and level of service inventory-revised: screening versionGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
Law Hum Behav 35:211-20. 2011..One area requiring further investigation is the potential role of the PICTS, particularly the R scale, as a dynamic risk factor... - Antisocial personality disorder with and without antecedent childhood conduct disorder: does it make a difference?Glenn D Walters
Psychology Services, FCI Schuylkill, P O Box 700, Minersville, Pennsylvania 17954 0700, USA
J Pers Disord 24:258-71. 2010..The theoretical, diagnostic, and practical implications of these results are discussed... - What is the latent structure of alcohol use disorders? A taxometric analysis of the Personality Assessment Inventory Alcohol Problems Scale in male and female prison inmatesGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, P O Box 700, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 24:26-37. 2010..g., withdrawal) are taxonic and other features (e.g., social problems) are dimensional... - Incremental validity of the Psychopathy Checklist facet scores: predicting release outcome in six samplesGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Minersville, Pennsylvania 17954 0700, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 117:396-405. 2008..The implications of these findings for the psychopathy construct in general and the PCL-R/SV in particular are discussed... - The latent structure of alcohol use disorders: a taxometric analysis of structured interview data obtained from male federal prison inmatesGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill P O Box 700, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
Alcohol Alcohol 43:326-33. 2008..Archival data from structured interviews of 1193 male prison inmates were subjected to taxometric analysis to determine the latent structure of the alcohol use disorder construct... - Use of the psychological inventory of criminal thinking styles to predict disciplinary adjustment in male inmate program participantsGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, Minersville, Pennsylvania 17954 0700, USA
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol 50:166-73. 2006..The only PICTS thinking style scale to achieve statistical significance in this study was the Cutoff scale that successfully predicted total, nonaggressive, and aggressive incident reports in both samples... - Construct validity of the psychological inventory of criminal thinking styles in relationship to the PAI, disciplinary adjustment, and program completionGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania 17954 0700, USA
J Pers Assess 84:252-60. 2005.... - Mapping the criminal mind: idiographic assessment of criminal belief systemsGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, P O Box 700, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, U S A
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol 49:5-24. 2005.... - The trouble with psychopathy as a general theory of crimeGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, FCI Schuylkill, P O Box 700, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol 48:133-48. 2004.... - Predicting criminal justice outcomes with the Psychopathy Checklist and Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form: a meta-analytic comparisonGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, FCI Schuylkill, PO Box 700, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
Behav Sci Law 21:89-102. 2003.... - The heritability of alcohol abuse and dependence: a meta-analysis of behavior genetic researchGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 28:557-84. 2002..18 (95% Confidence Interval = 0.15-0.21), with an even smaller weighted mean phi effect size of 0.15 (95% Confidence Interval = 0.12-0.18); results which indicate an upper limit of 30-36% for the heritability of alcohol misuse... - Behavior genetic research on gambling and problem gambling: a preliminary meta-analysis of available dataG D Walters
Psychology Services, FCI Schuylkill, P O Box 700, Minersville, PA 17954 0700, USA
J Gambl Stud 17:255-71. 2001..The implications of these results are discussed... - How many factors are there on the PICTS?Glenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, PA, USA
Crim Behav Ment Health 15:273-83. 2005..Several different factor models have been proposed for the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS), an 80-item self-report measure designed to assess thinking styles believed to maintain a criminal lifestyle... - Appraising, researching and conceptualizing criminal thinking: a personal viewGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania 17957 0700, USA
Crim Behav Ment Health 16:87-99. 2006.... - Effect of test administration set on the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS)Glenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, PA 17954 0700, USA
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol 50:661-71. 2006..Despite a general increase in the magnitude of PICTS scores for program participants, the overall pattern of scale elevations (correlations between scales and high-point pairs) was comparable across the two groups... - Predicting institutional adjustment with the Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form and the Antisocial Features and Aggression scales of the PAIGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution, Psychology Services, Schuylkill, PA 17954 0700, USA
J Pers Assess 88:99-105. 2007.... - Incremental validity of the psychological inventory of criminal thinking styles and psychopathy checklist: screening version in predicting disciplinary outcomeGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, Minersville, PA 17954, USA
Law Hum Behav 31:141-57. 2007..On the other hand, only the PICTS GCT score and Proactive Criminal Thinking (P) scale produced more than one significant ROC finding... - Response style versus crime-specific cognition: predicting disciplinary adjustment and recidivism in male and female offenders with the PICTSGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA
Assessment 14:35-43. 2007..The P scale only displayed incremental validity relative to Cf(p) and Df(p) in large groups of participants, whereas the R scale was incapable of predicting recidivism in female offenders when paired with Cf(p) and Df(p)... - Measuring proactive and reactive criminal thinking with the PICTS: correlations with outcome expectancies and hostile attribution biasesGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, PA 17954 0700, USA
J Interpers Violence 22:371-85. 2007.... - A taxometric analysis of the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV): further evidence of dimensionalityGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institute Schuylkill, Minersville, PA 17954, USA
Psychol Assess 19:330-9. 2007..It is concluded that scores on the PCL:SV differ quantitatively as points on a dimension (high vs. low psychopathy) rather than partitioning into qualitatively distinct categories of behavior (psychopath vs. nonpsychopath)... - Toward a hierarchical model of criminal thinking: evidence from item response theory and confirmatory factor analysisGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA
Psychol Assess 23:925-36. 2011.... - The latent structure of psychopathy: a taxometric investigation of the Psychopathy Checklist Revised in a heterogeneous sample of male prison inmatesGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill, Minersville, PA 17954, USA
Assessment 14:270-8. 2007..On the basis of these results, it is concluded that psychopathy falls along a continuum and that high and low scores on the PCL-R reflect quantitative differences in degree rather than qualitative differences in kind... - The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS): a review and meta-analysisGlenn D Walters
Psychology Services, Federal Correctional Institution-Schuylkill, Minersville, PA 17954-0700, USA
Assessment 9:278-91. 2002..The factor structure of the PICTS is then examined with the aid of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, the results of which denote the presence of two major and two minor factors... - Incremental validity of the psychological inventory of criminal thinking styles as a predictor of continuous and dichotomous measures of recidivismGlenn D Walters
Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA
Assessment 12:19-27. 2005..Whereas the En scale displayed mixed incremental validity results relative to the Co scale, the Co scale failed to achieve incremental validity relative to the En scale...