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Delinquency Among Adolescence With A Focus On Iq

Deviance is the recognized violation of cultural norms which is represented primarily by crime. Crime is the violation of a society’s formally enacted criminal law (Macionis, 222). With this known, this paper is going to discuss the connections between delinquency and IQ mainly among adolescent children. In psychology deviance is viewed as the result of “unsuccessful” socialization (Macionis, 223). The articles that I have read mostly pertain to adolescent adults and deal with the predictability of delinquency based on their intelligence from a variety of IQ tests.
The tests that are used in the articles are the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (or WISC-R) and the ACID profile test (or Arithmetic, Coding, Information, and Digit Span subtests). The WISC-R tests Performance, Verbal, and total IQ as well as the Freedom from Distractibility factor (FD). The study was aimed at making connections between dropout delinquent adolescents and nondelinquent adolescents and was comprised into three groups. They were the dropout delinquent adolescents living in residential institutions, dropout delinquent adolescents living at home, and nondelinquent adolescents living at home. The test involved 215 participants from Israel who like the United States suffer from high dropout rate and tend to dropout just a year from completing their formal education at tenth grade. Dropping out of school is generally followed with social unattachment and come from low-socioeconomic families in areas that are financially distressed. A large portion of the adolescents come from families that are dysfunctional to some degree Kahn-Stavzisky, 3, 1999). This will include mental illnesses, drug and alcohol abuse, or prostitution and criminal activities. The results of the study were analyzed by educational and clinical psychologists who did not know the adolescents group identity. The results were categorized into three categories: Verbal IQ, Performance IQ, and Total IQ. In...