Intellectual Imbalance and Delinquency: Comparing High Verbal and High Performance IQ Delinquents

• NCJ Number: 108071
• Journal: Criminal Justice and Behavior Volume: 14 Issue: 3 Dated: (September 1987) Pages: 370-379
• Author(s): A Walsh; T A Petee; J A Beyer
• Date Published: 1987
• Length: 10 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This study compares the degree of delinquency involvement of verbal (V)- and performance (P)- imbalanced delinquents with intellectually balanced (P=V) delinquents.

Abstract

It was found that P-V subjects were overrepresented and V-P subjects were underrepresented in our sample compared with expectations derived from a normative sample. It was also found that intellectual imbalance, regardless of direction, was significantly related to delinquency involvement. This finding held when controlling for social class and race. (Publisher abstract)