The study attempts to examine possible discriminating potential of Clo
ninger's Temperament and Character Inventory comparing a sample of 498
male criminals and a sample of 280 healthy subject's responses. Analy
ses of the TCI profiles using GLS MA-NOVA with age as a covariate prov
ide support for the differences between the profiles of Caucasian crim
inals and non-criminals, Gypsy criminals and Caucasian criminals, heal
thy criminals and drug dependent criminals, criminals with adaptive an
d nonadaptive behavior during serving sentence.