Personality Characteristics and Socio-Economic Status of Delinquents and Non-Delinquents

Comparison between the Personality Dimensions of Delinquents and Non-Delinquents of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan

This study was an attempt to find out the comparison between the personality dimensions of delinquents and non delinquents of Khyber Pukhtonkhwa (KPK). Eysenck personality Questionnaire (junior) (Urdu Version 2007) was administered on the sample of 400 (Delinquents = 200, non-delinquents = 200). Delinquents were the inmates in different jails of KPK while non-delinquents were the students of di...

Borderline personality in serious delinquents.

Seventy-one seriously delinquent adolescents (40 male, 31 female) were evaluated by two of the authors (an interviewer and an observer) using the Social Adaptation and Interpersonal Relations sections of the DIB (Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines) in combination with the SADS (Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia). DIB scores and DSM-III diagnoses were assigned to each subject ...

Delinquents and Their Parents

parents involved, the organisation formed for the benefit of parents of delinquents, has a current membership of ninety. One-third live in the London area, where fortnightly meetings are held to discuss common problems. An average of twelve parents attend each meeting, a few regularly, the majority spasmodically. Guests who are professionally concerned with delinquency are invited to some of th...

An Attempt to Differentiate Delinquents from Non-Delinquents on the Basis of Projective Drawings

Health of juvenile delinquents.

Intermediate treatment centres were established in 1969 to enable delinquent adolescents to remain within their communities under supervision, avoiding the imposition of a custodial sentence.' This study compares the physical health of a group of delinquent boys who attended Parkway, an intermediate treatment centre in a deprived inner city area, with that of non-delinquents. Subjects, methods ...