Identification of Boys at High Risk for Delinquency
- 1 April 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 58 (2) , 615-618
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1986.58.2.615
Abstract
A three-step screening procedure identified from a sample of 1224 grade school boys a subsample of 60 subjects at increased risk for delinquency. Peer status, childhood aggression, and predelinquent behavior were used in a sequential set of predictive tables. Relative improvement over chance provided a measure of predictive efficiency. Additional family variables isolated a small group with even higher risk.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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