Points of Neutrality in Social Attitudes of Delinquents and Non-Delinquents

Abstract

Delinquent boys are compared with non-delinquents with respect to their attitudes towards a series of “good” and “bad” social acts, by the use of scales having rational origins of measurement. A new technique, essentially an extension of Thurstone's Method of Successive Intervals, is found to give results similar to Horst's Method of Balanced Values. Significant differences in mean attitude between the two groups are not found.