Mills et al. found a greater significance in the strength of the relationship between antisocial attitudes and prior criminal history for sex offenders, which is found regardless of controlling for Number of Criminal Friends. Where the two groups differed was in attitudes. After accounting for age in the sex offender group (21-79 years), the number of previous incarcerations were what distinguished them from the non-sex offender group (18-55 years). The MCAA may possess predictive validity since the relationship between both measures (MCAA and criminal history) are similar for both offender
