“…Concomitantly, numerous studies have been clonducted in which there has been an attempt to identify associaltions between personality patterns and criminological variables. Especially frequent have been efforts to differentiate among offenders who have been classified according to the type or seriousness of their most recent antisocial behavior (Blackburn, 1968 ;Ruck & Graham, 1978;Carroll & Fuller, 1971;Davis C Sines, 1971;Deiker, 1974;Holland & Holt, 1975 ;McCreary, 1976 ;Megargee & Meindelsohn, 1962;Panton, 1958;Persons & Narks, 1971;Rader, 1977), although studies of first offenders versus recidivists (Bauer & Clark, 1976;Christensen & LeUnes, 1974;Clark, 1948;Dunhxm, 1954;Flanagan & Lewis, 1974;Panton, 1959Panton, , 1962a and probationparole violators versus nonviolators (Gough, Wenk, & Rozynko, 1965;Jacobson & Wirt, 1969;Mack, 1969;Mandel & Barron, 1966;Panton, 1962b ;Smith & Lanyon, 1968) have also often been reported.…”