Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

The Criminal Attribution Inventory (CRAI), drawing upon attribution theory and criminally-related domains, measures criminal responsibility and blame. The CRAI's six scales measure criminal responsibility (Psychopathology, Personality), external criminal blame (Victim, Alcohol, Society) and the attribution of crime to random factors (Random). The items and instructions were designed to measure changes resulting from treatment intervention. With incarcerated and community samples, adequate reliabilities (alpha, test-retest) and pre-post-treatment changes (five treatment programs) were demonstrated. These results provide some evidence of the CRAI's utility in measuring criminal treatment change.