Varieties of Delinquent Youth: An Introduction to Constitutional Psychiatry

Abstract

This book is written primarily for psychiatrists, anthropologists and physicians. It is a biologically oriented study of delinquent behavior as it is related to physical constitution. The basis of this book is a report of a ten year study made at a Boston social agency of 200 young male delinquents of many nationalities and various religions. Detailed biographies with accompanying photographs illustrating body build include heredity, medical and emotional history, school achievement, intelligence rating and social relations. After a statistical evaluation of these biographies, the psychiatry of delinquency is discussed from biologic and social points of view. Generally speaking, the 200 delinquent youths were physically vigorous and muscular, and temperamentally buoyant, extroverted and free from inhibition which characterizes persons with bodies less massive and more flat and fragile. This book is a valuable contribution, especially because of the comprehensive case histories it contains. It is descriptive rather than explanatory of

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