title: Drug abuse and criminal behavior in delinquent boys committed to a training school.
abstract: To determine drug use or drug abuse status according to DSM-III criteria, the authors interviewed 109 delinquent boys who had been committed to a training school. They categorized each boy as an offender against a person or as an offender against property only. They found that person offenders were significantly older, came from larger communities, abused a greater number of drugs, had higher asocial index scores, and had lower full-scale IQ scores than property-only offenders. The IQ score and the number of drugs abused were the most important variables predicting whether a subject belonged to the person offender or property-only offender group.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D003415:Crime; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D011330:Prisons; D011581:Psychological Tests; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*