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Mental Testing in Male Adolescent Delinquents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

F. H. Taylor*
Affiliation:
H.M. Prison, Wormwood Scrubs

Extract

In this paper an account is given of the results of investigation of the use of the Columbian group test in a series of 10,000 male adolescent prisoners between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two years.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1938 

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