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010 _a19011995
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050 4 _aHV
100 1 _aMiner, James Burt,
_d1873-1943
245 1 0 _aDeficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental Testing
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2016
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2016-08-17
508 _aE-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)
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aMentally ill offenders
653 _aPsychological tests
653 _aJuvenile delinquents
653 _aChildren with mental disabilities
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52826
999 _c93660
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