Lifestyle criminality exists because of the way a criminal thinks, and although environmental factors may limit his options, these influences do not determine criminal behavior. Society must either be prepared to confine lifestyle criminals in perpetuum or develop programs which will help these individuals change their thinking; anything else overlooks the root causes of crime of thought and choice. Eight cognitive characteristics of lifestyle criminality are discussed: mollification, cutoff, entitlement, power orientation, sentimentality, superoptimism, cognitive indolence, and discontinuity. It is suggested that no matter how long an individual has been a lifestyle criminal, the capacity for change continues to exist.