Specific reading retardation, hyperactive child syndrome, and juvenile delinquency
- 1 July 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- Vol. 54 (1) , 25-28
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1976.tb00091.x
Abstract
An attempt was made to ascertain the extent to which a specific reading retardation leads to criminal development in adolescents and to what factors such development is due in these cases. For this purpose, 224 adolescents with a specific reading retardation were investigated. A relatively large number of these (12.1%) were prone to criminality between the ages of 15 and 20 yr; the severity of the specific reading retardation did not seem to contribute to this propensity. Symptoms of hyperactivity seemed to contribute to criminal behavior.Keywords
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