Criminality Among Patients with Klinefelter's Syndrome and the Xyy Syndrome
- 1 October 1970
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 117 (539) , 365-369
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.117.539.365
Abstract
The present study is a preliminary report of the frequency and type of criminality in men with Klinefelter's syndrome and the XYY syndrome; it has been made on the background of previous findings of a comparatively high frequency of criminality among such patients.Keywords
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