Travis Hirschi and Juvenile Crime Michael J. Hindelang, in American
Sociological Review (Aug. 1977), 1722 N
St., N.w., Washington, D.C. 20036.
For the past 50 years, academic criminologists have discounted evi- dence of a relationship between low IQ and delinquency; most textbooks, for example, either ignore the matter or question the corre- lation. Nevertheless, write Hirschi and Hindelang, sociologists at the State University of New York, the facts "strongly support" a relation- ship...