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Intellectual Imbalance and Delinquency

Comparing High Verbal and High Performance IQ Delinquents

Boise State University

THOMAS A. PETEE

University of Notre Dame

J. ARTHUR BEYER

Boise State University

This study compares the degree of delinquency involvement of V > P and P > V imbalanced delinquents with intellectually balanced (P=V) delinquents. It was found that P > V subjects were overrepresented and V > P subjects were underrepresented in our sample compared with expectations derived from a normative sample. It was also found that intellectual imbalance, regardless of direction, was significantly related to delinquency involvement. This finding held when controlling for social class and race.

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14, No. 3, 370-379 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854887014003007


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