Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental Testing

by James Burt Miner

INDEX

• 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
• Environment, [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]
• 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