Deficiency and Delinquency

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Author

Miner, James Burt, 1873-1943

Title

Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental Testing

Credits

E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing, MWS, Bryan Ness, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Subject

Children with mental disabilities

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 52826

Release Date

August 17, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Deficiency and Delinquency An Interpretation of Mental Testing
2. 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
3. 3.LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
6. 6.PART ONE PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS — CHAPTER II. THE FUNCTIONS OF A SCALE IN DIAGNOSIS — A. The Meaning of Intellectual Deficiency. — B. Forms of Mental Deficiency Not Yet Discoverable by Tests. — C. Doubtful Intellects Accompanied by Delinquency Presumed Deficient. — CHAPTER III. THE PERCENTAGE DEFINITION OF INTELLECTUAL DEFICIENCY — A. The Definition. — B. The Assumptions of a Quantitative Definition. — CHAPTER IV. WHAT PERCENTAGE IS FEEBLE-MINDED — A. Kinds of Social Care Contemplated — B. Estimates of the School Population Versus the General Population — C. Desirable Versus Immediately Advisable Social Care — D. Percentages Suggested to Harmonize the Estimates — E. Comparison With Important Estimates — F. The Ability of the Mentally Retarded, Especially Those Receiving Special Training. — CHAPTER V. ADAPTING THE PERCENTAGE DEFINITION TO THE BINET SCALE — A. The Border Region for the Mature. — B. The Border Region for the Immature. — CHAPTER VI. DELINQUENTS TESTING DEFICIENT — A. At the Glen Lake Farm School for Boys, Hennepin County, Minnesota. — B. Comparison of Tested Deficiency Among Typical Groups of Delinquents. — C. Summary of Tested Deficiency Among Delinquents — CHAPTER VII. CHECKING THE BINET DIAGNOSIS BY OTHER METHODS — CHAPTER VIII. SCHOOL RETARDATION AMONG DELINQUENTS — A. In Minneapolis — B. School Retardations Among Other Groups of Delinquents — CHAPTER IX. COMPARISON OF THE SCHOOL TEST AND THE BINET TEST — A. Practical Uses of the School Test. — B. Checking Deficiency Among Delinquents by the School Test. — CHAPTER X. BAD SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT AS A CAUSE OF DELINQUENCY — CHAPTER XI. DEFICIENCY AS A CAUSE OF DELINQUENCY — A. The Chances of the Mentally Deficient Becoming Delinquent. — B. The Correlation of Deficiency and Delinquency. — C. The Causes of Delinquency. — CHAPTER XII. SUMMARY AND SUGGESTIONS
7. 7.PART TWO THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS — CHAPTER XIII. THE THEORY OF THE MEASUREMENT OF MENTAL DEVELOPMENT — A. Comparison of Units and Scales for Measuring Individual Differences. — B. The Curves of Mental Development. — CHAPTER XIV. QUANTITATIVE DEFINITIONS OF THE BORDERLINE — A. Different Forms of Quantitative Definitions — B. Common Characteristics of Quantitative Definitions — C. Practical Advantages of the Percentage Method — D. Theoretical Advantage of the Percentage Method with Changes in the Form of the Distributions
8. 8.BIBLIOGRAPHY ON TESTED DELINQUENTS [34] — OTHER REFERENCES CITED
9. 9.APPENDIX I
10. 10.APPENDIX II
11. 11.INDEX
12. 12.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

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