While important, determining the true association between SES and ...

[student77]

While important, determining the true association between SES and delinquency is not necessarily critical to the study of delinquency.
 
  a. True
   b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 2

Explain intelligence and delinquency. What is your view on intelligence and delinquency? Do you believe there is a relationship? Why or why not?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[prumorgan]

Answer to Question 1

FALSE

Answer to Question 2

 Psychologists have long been concerned with the development of intelligence and its subsequent relationship to behavior.
 It has been charged that children with low IQs are responsible for a disproportionate share of delinquency.
 Early criminologists believed that low intelligence was a major cause of delinquency; they thought that if it could be determined which individuals were less intelligent, it might be possible to identify potential delinquents before they committed socially harmful acts.
 Because social scientists had a captive group of subjects in training schools and penal institutions, studies began to appear that measured the correlation between IQ and crime by testing adjudicated juvenile delinquents.
 Delinquent juveniles were believed to be inherently substandard in intelligence and naturally inclined to commit more crimes than more intelligent people.
 Juvenile delinquents were used as a test group around which numerous theories about intelligence were built.
 Student views will vary.