TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1934//
TI  - Vocabulary and Argot of Delinquent Boys
JO  - American journal of sociology
A1  - Selling, Lowell S.
A1  - Stein, Seymour P.
SP  - 674
EP  - 677
VL  - 39
IS  - 5
N2  - A vocabulary study of one hundred boys at the St. Charles Corrective School and comparison with a high-school group from an area of low delinquency indicated that the argot for the delinquent boy is somewhat characteristic of his group, and serves to differentiate it from the general population. Since the delinquent boy comes usually from an inadequate cultural background he is handicapped when tested on a measure of intelligence that involves verbal responses.<p />
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SN  - 0002-9602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/216563
ID  - ref1
ER  -