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Mental Testing in Male Adolescent Delinquents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

F. H. Taylor
F. H. Taylor*
Affiliation:
H.M. Prison, Wormwood Scrubs
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In this paper an account is given of the results of investigation of the use of the Columbian group test in a series of 10,000 male adolescent prisoners between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two years.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 84 , Issue 350-351 , May 1938 , pp. 513 - 523
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1938 

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