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Abstract
This article investigates whether particular scales of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, Citation1991) 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, Citation1999). 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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A visual examination of the mean PAI scores for the initial sample (N = 311) and the validity screened sample (N = 268) showed that there were no score changes by more than 2 T score points on any of the scales or subscales apart from INF (initial sample mean = 59.1, validity screened sample mean = 56.6).
HM Prison Service made a transition from using the OGRS–2 to the OGRS–3 during the period of data collection.