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Delinquency and Cultural Stress
Author(s) -
STOTT D. H.
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1962.tb00698.x
Subject(s) - juvenile delinquency , psychology , prejudice (legal term) , developmental psychology , stress (linguistics) , social psychology , clinical psychology , linguistics , philosophy
The families of Glasgow boys put on probation were classified into four culture‐groups. The boys belonging to the two regarded as socially ‘inadequate’ showed significantly more indications of behaviour‐disturbance as recorded on the Bristol Social Adjustment Guides. It was argued that this was unlikely to be due to teacher‐prejudice, but probably reflected the greater instability and more stressful life of the lower‐culture families. Reasons for the existence of endemic delinquency in the large group of culturally intact working‐class families were discussed. Besides the higher incidence of postnatal stresses in the low‐culture families, it was suggested that under‐privileged children are more liable to congenital impairment which makes them more vulnerable to stress.