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The article presents a psychometric study of 150 adult delinquents. During the period January 1929 to January 1933, as part of a psychiatric study, members of the psychological staff of the Worcester State Hospital examined 150 white male prisoners at the Worcester County Jail. Since Pintner summarizes most of the data on the results of psychometric investigations of prisoners, no discussion of previous studies will be entered into except as necessary for comparative purposes. The crimes for which these prisoners had been indicted fall into the following rough classifications: thievery, physical assault, sex assault, fraud, and miscellaneous crime. Of the 150 prisoners, 143 were "recidivists" in the sense of coming within the meaning of the "Briggs Law" in any respect except the commission of a capital crime. The psychometric examination consisted of a battery of tests composed of the Stanford revision of the Binet-Simon Test, the Worcester Formboard Series, the Healy Picture Completion Test II, the Porteus Mazes, and the Whipple-Healy Tapping Test. |
