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Parental Deprivation, Family Background and Female Delinquency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

K. M. Koller*
Affiliation:
The St. George Hospital, Kogarah, Sydney. N.S.W. 2217, Australia

Extract

The purpose of this article is twofold. Firstly as a contribution to the literature of female delinquency, a subject that has attracted little contemporary attention, with one notable exception, the essentially psychiatric study of a year's intake into a classifying Approved School by Cowie, Cowie and Slater (1968). Secondly as an examination of the hypothesis that early adverse experiences are related to female delinquency in particular and to behaviour disturbance in general.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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