Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental TestingMiner, James Burt
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Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental Testing
Miner, James Burt
Children with mental disabilities; Juvenile delinquents; Mentally ill offenders; Psychological tests
Intellectual deficiency, 10, 17, 20
Intelligence quotient, 304, 313
Juvenile delinquency and deficiency, 220-223
Juvenile delinquents, 162
Kuhlmann's Scale, borderlines, 87-90, 111, 118
Legal responsibility, 244
Maturity of mind, 83, 282, 290
Later for deficients, 294 ff., 230
Measurement units, 254 ff., 275 ff., 317
Mental deficiency, 11, 20
See feeble.
Mental development, 279 ff
Minneapolis: delinquents tested, 125
School retardation, 177-185, 199
Juvenile deficient delinquents, 220-223
Minneapolis, school group tested, 85-91
Morons: chances of delinquency, 217
Danger to society, 237, 246
Normal distribution, 256, 267
Observation home, 242
Offenses, 168
Percentage definition of deficiency, 5, 13, 20, 65, 75, 80, 240, 304
ff., 307
Advantages, 311 ff.
Percentage feeble-minded, 47 ff.
Percentiles as units, 276
Point Scale, borderlines, 114, 313
Prostitutes, 78, 129, 140, 158
Schooling, 186
Quantitative definitions, 21, 304 ff.
Effect of uncertain forms of distribution, 317 ff.
Ranks as units, 276
Rates of development, 290 ff.
Recidivism, 168, 235
Reformatories, 128, 143
Responsibility of deficients, 244
School test of deficiency, 177, 189 ff.
School maladjustment, 203-209, 247
School retardation of delinquents, 177-188, 190-194, 199
Skewed distributions, 267, 300
Social care, 47-52, 80, 158 ff., 212-214, 216, 237, 242-251
Social deficiency, 10, 15, 74, 239
Special ability, 34, 45
Special classes, 62 ff., 74-80
Standard deviation, 256, 306, 314
Stanford Scale, borderlines, 101, 112, 313
State prisons, 128, 141
State Training Schools, 131, 145
Sterilization, 245
Test by school retardation, 177, 189
Tested deficiency, 13
Tests, mental, 170 ff.
See also Binet, Goddard, Kuhlmann, Point, and Stanford Scales.
Thorn Hill Detention Home, 151
Training for deficients, 205
Units of measurement, 254, 275, 317
Vagrancy, 158
Variability, 41-46, 280 ff.
Year units, 260-266
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Transcriber's note:
1. Changed the total column in Table X on p. 151 for the life-age 8 row
to 1 and the Totals row to 124.
2. In TABLE XIII. on p. 179 the GIRLS Percentages columns on the
Ordinary Pupils row only adds up to 99%.
3. Silently corrected typographical errors.
4. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
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