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Deficiency and Delinquency

Part 2 — INDEX

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Ability of the feeble-minded, 74, 92, 197

Arrest of development, see maturity

Average curves, 280 ff

Binet Scale, 7, 172 Year units of, 260 ff

Borderline of deficiency, 5, 13, 304 ff For the mature, 82-95, 240, 315 For the immature, 104-110

Causes of delinquency, 203 ff, 210 ff Method of studying, 218, 224 ff, 231 ff, 244

City jails, 148

Coefficient of intelligence, 305, 313

Conative cases, 15, 18, 24-30, 34-40, 239, 248

Convicts deficient, 142

Correlation: of degree of deficiency with delinquency, 217 Of deficiency and criminality, 220 Significance of coefficients of, 219 Of deficiency and juvenile delinquency, 220

County institutions, 134, 148

Crimes by the feeble-minded, 212, 214

Criminal diathesis, 234

Death rates, 30

Deficiency, nature of, 21, 211 ff, 239 See feeble, frequency, correlation, etc.

Deficient delinquents, 158, 190, 199, 211 ff, 239, 246

Delinquency, see frequency of, causes of, correlation, etc.

Delinquents: first offenders, 165, 167 Repeaters, 168

Delinquents, tested: female, 128-141 Male, 141-157

Development curves, 252 ff., 279 ff

Diagnosis, 6, 11, 14, 52, 90, 107, 172-176, 194, 197, 201, 241-244

Distribution curves, 267-275, 317-323

Doubtful cases, 18

Employment of feeble-minded, 74-80

354Environment, 42, 225 ff

Estimating deficiency by schooling, 190, 199

Expert court advice, 243

Family resemblance versus heredity, 231

Feeble-minded not detected by tests, 14, 34-40

Feeble-mindedness, 10, 17, 18, 20, 239 See deficiency.

Frequency of deficiency, 23, 47 ff., 80, 158 ff Effect of local conditions, 147, 152, 161, 163

Frequency of delinquency among deficients, 211-218

General ability, 34, 45, 282 ff

Glen Lake Farm School, 122, 177

Goddard's Scale, borderlines, 89, 106, 111, 313

Goring's study of criminals, 218 ff., 231 ff

Gruhle's method, 229

Heredity, 229 ff., 236, 244

Individual differences, 41, 280

Inert cases, 15

Instability, 15, 23

Institutional care, 242, 246, 248

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

355Percentage 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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