Bad Boys

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7368
• DOI: 10.1016/s0015-7368(70)70604-x

✦ Synopsis

This is the first volume in a new series on psychiatry. The book is based essentially on Sheldon & Glueck's famous study "Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency" and is concerned with the problem of Juvenile Delinquency. Chapters discuss phenomenology, etiology, and terminology. A chapter on methodology discusses the documentation, quantification and prediction of delinquency and includes a prediction table based on a follow-up study of 399 delinquent boys. A chapter on results describes an enquiry into 1,059 delinquent boys from West Berlin aged around sixteen years who were studied over a period of four years ending in 1965. This study disclosed in brief that although there were no significant peculiarities in the physical condition of the boys, their families were severely disturbed. The boys' intellectual and academic attainments as might be expected were below normal and amongst their psychological traits truancy, laziness and loafing were marked. The final chapter attempts a pathography of delinquency.