Drug-taking in delinquent boys.

Drug-taking in delinquent boys.

A retrospective survey was conducted on 67 boys in a London remand home during the years 1965-7 inclusive who were known to have taken drugs. The boys were divided into a "hard" and a "soft" group according to whether or not there was evidence of narcotic taking. The groups were compared and the hard group showed a significantly greater incidence of abnormal personality, family history of psych...

Delinquent Boys

The theme of this book is that delinquency must be understood as a persistent subculture within the larger society of big cities.

Specific drug use and violence in delinquent boys.

Delinquent boys who had been committed to a training school were interviewed by a psychiatrist to determine drug abuse status. Crimes that were officially recorded were classified as person offenses or property offenses, and the number of offenses was determined from the juvenile record. Drug scores were given subjects for each of 13 drug categories according to the following scale: 0, no use o...

Smoking Habits of Delinquent Boys.

Several studies have indicated the extent of cigarette smoking amongst schoolchildren. (Bothwell, 1959; Cartwright, Thomson, and others, 1960; Jefferys and Westaway, 1961; Public Health Department, London School of Hygiene, 1959). They show that smoking often begins at the age of 10 years or less, and that from that age there is a steady increase with age in the number of children who smoke reg...

The expressed values of institutionalized delinquent boys.