Abstract
This chapter seeks to make available to the scientific public those research scales that were little used, but promising. We assumed that it was wasteful for researchers to begin afresh in development of scales when existing measures could be utilized. The pursuit of this objective becomes especially clear in the personality assessment section of this chapter on offenders. There four scales are reviewed: (1) the Inmate Personality Inventory; (2) the Interpersonal Personality Inventory; (3) the Accessibility Scale; and (4) the Prison Fantasy Questionnaire. All four scales show promise of validly assessing important aspects of offender functioning, and all four scales are not being used in contemporary research. The Interpersonal Personality Inventory (IPIC) is a good case study in nonutilization. It was developed in the early 1960s as part of an extensive investigation by a talented team of California investigators. The research project was completed, many members of the team soon drifted away, and the scale fell into a state of benign neglect.
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Brodsky, S.L., Smitherman, H.O. (1983). Offenders. In: Handbook of Scales for Research in Crime and Delinquency. Perspectives in Law & Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3300-5_10
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