The role of color in Rorschach's test: A preliminary survey of neurotic and psychotic groups

✍ Scribed by Robert M. Allen; Margaret P. Stiff; Milton Rosenzweig

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1953
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 253 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(195301)9:1<81::aid-jclp2270090127>3.0.co;2-z

✦ Synopsis

DELINQUENCY 81 daring by heaving a brick through a school window, at fifteen could achieve the same and better by swiping a car. In like manner, it is possible that an overpowering drive might find expression in a number of ways. For instance, objects stolen may have sexual significance, as clinical evidence sometimes suggests. Whatever may be happening in specific cases, the data reported in these brief notes would indicate that the behavior patterns associated with delinquency €or most youngsters are in a state of flux during the years of adolescence.

S u M M A R Y

The complete police records for 1,170 boys were analyzed. For the 864 with more than one police contact, the first and last juvenile offenses were compared. In two categories, sex offenses and auto thefts, a consistency was found, the significance of this could be challenged on statistical or other grounds. For the majority of the group, no reliable prediction as to last offense could be made from the nature of the first offense. This lends support to the view that delinquency is frequently the product of a generalized personality disorganization of some type. REFERENCES 1.