Citation

Lewis DO, Shanok SS. Am. J. Psychiatry 1977; 134(9): 1020-1025.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1977, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

561551

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.

Language: en