Comparison of Wisc Profiles of Alleged Juvenile Delinquents Living at Home versus Those Incarcerated

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Comparison was made between the WISC subtests and IQs of 91 juveniles living on a juvenile detention ward and 91 juveniles living at home. All subjects were alleged juvenile delinquents and were awaiting adjudication. No differences were found on either IQs or subtest standard scores between ward and home group. There were, however, significant differences among the subtests. A Newman-Keuls test indicated a grouping of the subtests which was different from that described by Wechsler (1958). The highest ranked subtests were Similarities, Picture Completion, and Object Assembly; the lowest ranked were Information, Vocabulary, and Arithmetic. The data indicate that the verbal-performance discrepancy is not useful to describe alleged juvenile delinquents.

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