@article{ref1,
title="Medical histories of delinquent and nondelinquent children: an epidemiological study",
journal="American journal of psychiatry",
year="1977",
author="Lewis, D. O. and Shanok, S. S.",
volume="134",
number="9",
pages="1020-1025",
abstract="The authors studies the hospital records of 109 delinquent children and a matched comparison group of 109 nondelinquent children. The number, reasons for, and timing of hospital contacts significantly differentiated the delinquent from the nondelinquent children; perinatal difficulties did not. The authors hypothesize that an interaction of developmental factors and parental inadequacies accounts for the clustering of hospital contacts before age 4 and between ages 14 and 16 in the delinquent sample. They discuss the implications of their findings for prevention.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-953X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}