02353cam a22003493u 4500 52826 UtSlPG 20260610134222.0 m cr n 260607r2016||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d 19011995 UtSlPG en iso639-1 HV Miner, James Burt, 1873-1943 Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental Testing Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2016 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2016-08-17 E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing, MWS, Bryan Ness, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental Testing" by James Burt Miner is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. This work examines the relationship between mental deficiency and delinquency, focusing on the implications of mental testing, particularly through the Binet scale. The book aims to clarify how mental weaknesses correlate with social unfitness and delinquency, ultimately proposing a new methodology for diagnosing intellectual deficiencies. The opening of the text outlines the author's motivations for the research, highlighting a perceived need for clearer, more objective assessments of mental development concerning delinquency. Miner reflects on the challenges in defining feeble-mindedness and the importance of quantifying this concept for social care considerations. He introduces the idea of using a percentage-based system to more accurately categorize individuals based on their mental capacity and its societal implications, laying the groundwork for the detailed examination that follows in the subsequent chapters. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Mentally ill offenders Psychological tests Juvenile delinquents Children with mental disabilities https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52826 93660 93660