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Identifier	Thesis 1756
Author	Forde, Margaret
Title	Examining IQ In Delinquent Youth
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2004
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The relationship between IQ and delinquency has three theoretical relationships: a direct relationship between IQ and delinquency, with IQ directly affecting delinquency; no relationship between IQ and delinquency, with a possible third variable affecting both simultaneously; and an indirect relationship where IQ affects the experience in school, affecting delinquency. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between IQ and delinquency for court adjudicated youth, and to test the hypotheses that delinquents with a lower IQ will be involved in serious crime while higher IQ delinquents will be involved in non-serious crimes; delinquents with a lower IQ will score better on the performance scale than the verbal scale of the IQ test; and delinquents with lower IQs will recidivate while delinquents with higher IQs will not recidivate. This study consisted of 24 youths between the ages of 14-17 years who participated in an education program for court adjudicated youth. A separate evaluation of the program provided the data for this study, making it secondary data analysis. The youth completed the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children IQ test, the Manifestation of Symptomatology Scale that identifies personality dynamics, environmental concerns, and treatment and placement needs. The youths also completed a self-report survey of academic self-concept, perception of school acceptance/rejection, anger, delinquency, and victimization. Their criminal record determined a youth's delinquency and they were considered to have recidivated if they received a new criminal charge. Their reading and math scores were collected from school records. To study the relationship between IQ and delinquency, three t-tests and a correlation analysis were used. The t-tests found only one significant difference. The results were: youth with lower IQs are not serious delinquents compared to higher IQ youth; a significant difference in WISC scores between high IQ youth and low IQ youth with no difference between low IQ youth's verbal and performance scores; and no significant difference between youth with lower IQs versus higher IQs and whether they recidivated. The correlation analysis was conducted to test the strength and direction of the relationship between IQ and delinquency. Significant positive relationships were found between victimization and verbal score; relationship with mother and seriousness of delinquency; thought process and seriousness of delinquency; and math score and recidivism. A strong negative relationship was found between age and verbal score, and age and full-scale on the WISC. No significant relationship between IQ and delinquency was found. Lower IQ youth were not found to be more delinquent either by being involved in serious crime, performing better on the performance scale of the WISC, or recidivating compared to higher IQ youth. More research is needed for possible prevention policies, such as changing school experiences so lower IQ youth are rewarded differently or more in school, or possibly changing the criminal justice system to include higher IQ youth.
Subject	Juvenile delinquents -- Intelligence levels
Department	Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Advisor	Cox, Stephen M
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734046
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