Two groups of 75 incarcerated felons, one described as softcore and the other as hardcore differed from an equal-sized control group and from each other on 514 true-false items depicting attitudes and opinions. Two pools of test items were identified that will serve as test statements along with neutral filler items in a follow-up study to identify soft- and hardcore felons.
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