Project Gutenberg 2016-08-17 Public domain in the USA. 197 Miner, James Burt 1873 1943 19011995 Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental Testing E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing, MWS, Bryan Ness, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental Testing" by James Burt Miner is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. This work examines the relationship between mental deficiency and delinquency, focusing on the implications of mental testing, particularly through the Binet scale. The book aims to clarify how mental weaknesses correlate with social unfitness and delinquency, ultimately proposing a new methodology for diagnosing intellectual deficiencies. The opening of the text outlines the author's motivations for the research, highlighting a perceived need for clearer, more objective assessments of mental development concerning delinquency. Miner reflects on the challenges in defining feeble-mindedness and the importance of quantifying this concept for social care considerations. He introduces the idea of using a percentage-based system to more accurately categorize individuals based on their mental capacity and its societal implications, laying the groundwork for the detailed examination that follows in the subsequent chapters. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 51.8 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Mentally ill offenders Psychological tests Juvenile delinquents Children with mental disabilities HV Text Category: Psychiatry/Psychology Category: Law & Criminology 943308 2025-07-21T06:53:46.966265 text/html 922710 2024-10-23T00:59:32 text/html 1003609 2025-07-21T06:54:01.845191 application/epub+zip 1012547 2025-07-21T06:53:49.601270 application/epub+zip 340102 2025-07-21T06:53:48.338304 application/epub+zip 1246474 2025-07-21T06:54:09.076189 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1194060 2025-07-21T06:54:00.528207 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 522859 2022-09-24T01:18:04.392743 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 744773 2025-07-21T06:53:44.572296 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 724685 2024-10-23T00:59:31 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17219 2025-07-21T06:54:09.247153 application/rdf+xml 10641 2025-07-21T06:53:48.522244 image/jpeg 1515 2025-07-21T06:53:48.431264 image/jpeg 934531 2025-07-21T06:53:47.044302 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog