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Psychiatric and Social Characteristics of Bright Delinquents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Dennis Gath ,
Gavin Tennent  and
Ronald Pidduck
Dennis Gath
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford
Gavin Tennent
Affiliation:
Special Hospitals Research Unit, Broadmoor Hospital, Berks
Ronald Pidduck
Affiliation:
Stamford House Remand Home, London W.12
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It has been reported that delinquents of superior intelligence differ from those of average and below average intelligence in their psychological, social, criminal and educational characteristics (Burt, 1944; Simmons, 1956 and 1962; Caplan and Powell, 1964; Cowie et al., 1968). Simmons has suggested that bright delinquents are more likely to be emotionally disturbed. He describes the boys at an Approved School for highly intelligent boys as suffering generally from ‘deep emotional disturbance’, and maintains that ‘the emotional disturbances which turn an intelligent child into a delinquent have usually been far more severe than they would have been in a less intelligent, less sensitive one’.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 116 , Issue 531 , February 1970 , pp. 151 - 160
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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