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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1970) 116: 151-160. doi: 10.1192/bjp.116.531.151
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Psychiatric and Social Characteristics of Bright Delinquents

DENNIS GATH B.M., M.R.C.P., D.P.M.1, GAVIN TENNENT B.M., D.P.M., Dip. Criminol.2, and RONALD PIDDUCK B.A.3

1 Lecturer, University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford
2 Clinical Research Consultant, Special Hospitals Research Unit, Broadmoor Hospital, Berks.
3 Educational Psychologist, Stamford House Remand Home, London W.12

A comparison was made between two series of delinquents on remand, the one an index series of 50 boys of superior intelligence and the other a control series of 50 boys of average intelligence matched for age, ethnic origin and Court of referral.

The two groups of boys were found to be largely similar in their social and criminological characteristics. A greater severity of psychiatric disorder (as determined by two independent methods of assessment) was found in the index series. There was also a tendency for more index than control subjects to have committed offences of which the determinants appeared to be predominantly psychological. The implications of these findings are discussed.

Submitted on March 3, 1969




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