Participants at two residential reentry centers in North Carolina reported reduced criminal thinking upon completion of GEO Reentry Services programming in two reports covering the 2017 calendar year.
The participants’ criminal thinking, measured by the Texas Christian University Criminal Thinking Scales (CTS), decreased a total of two points across all six domains: entitlement, justification, power orientation, cold heartedness, criminal rationalization, personal responsibility.
The CTS is a self-rating tool that is completed by program participants to assess their cognitive functioning in relation to criminal conduct. Antisocial attitudes and antisocial cognition, two areas of criminal thinking assessed by the CTS, are among the top three risk factors of recidivism.
This drop signifies that programming at the two centers evaluated, Morganton Confinement in Response to Violation and Lumberton Confinement in Response to Violation, significantly reduced criminal thinking for participants and lowered their potential for future recidivism.
To read the two reports in full, visit our Outcomes page.