Citation

Broder PK, Dunivant N, Smith EC, Sutton LP. J. Educ. Psychol. 1981; 73(6): 838-850.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, American Psychological Association)

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Abstract

A sample of 1,617 12- to 15-year-old boys was classified with respect to the presence or absence of learning disabilities (LD) and interviewed individually concerning family background, school attitude, and self-reported delinquent behavior. Two groups of boys were included in the sample: one of 633 who had been adjudicated delinquent by juvenile courts and a second of 984 who had no records of previous adjudication. The percentages of boys in the delinquent and nondelinquent groups who were classified as learning disabled were 36.5 and 18.9, respectively. In a hierarchical multiple regression analysis, a general self-reported delinquency (SRD) measure was regressed on LD classification, controlling for the effects of potentially confounding background variables. The results indicated that the presence of LD had a small but significant negative relationship with general SRD, fl = ó.060. There was a strong positive relationship, however, between the presence of LD and the probability of adjudication (fl = .951) when adjudication status was regressed on LD classification in a logistic regression analysis. These results suggest that learning-disabled youths do not evidence more delinquent behavior than non-learning-disabled youths, but they are more likely to be found delinquent by juvenile courts. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by the American Psychological Association)

Learning Disability
Low Intelligence
Delinquency Causes
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Offender
Juvenile Male
Male Offender
Juvenile Development
Intellectual Development
Early Adolescence
Late Adolescence
Intelligence-Delinquency Link
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