Identifier: individualdelinq00heal (find matches)
Title: The individual delinquent; a text-book of diagnosis and prognosis for all concerned in understanding offenders
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Healy, William, 1869-
Subjects: Criminal anthropology Criminals Juvenile delinquency Psychology, Pathological Juvenile Delinquency Criminology
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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l-edge of fitness for certain kinds of accurate work. Other tests could readily be devised if vocational diagnosisin any given study of the offender was desirable, and how ex-tremely desirable it may be can be seen from contemplation ofsome of our case studies. We are certain that diagnosis of occu-pational aptitude should properly be a careful part of the studyof the delinquent, because of the frequent relationship betweenvocational dissatisfaction and social misconduct. The develop-ment of this whole line of work promises much, but as yet it isnearly a virgin field. The best vocational bureaus themselvesadvisedly await the production of really dependable methodsof diagnosis and prediction at the hands of practical psychol-ogists. § 78. Special Abilities. — On account of their importance,and also because they are not always to be considered in a voca-tional light, special abilities may be dwelt on apart from thematter of the previous section. Tests for special abilities may be 100
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Plate VI An Instruction Box — our Test XIV Example of a vocational test. The box can only be opened by accurately following each step of the instructions given. Chap. VI) SPECIAL ABILITIES (§ 78 presented and, naturally, in the form of selected tasks. Whatemphasis to place on the possession of special talents may begathered from the relevant facts presented in our practical studyof delinquents. The need for self-expression forms in some per-sons the soil from which misconduct springs. The first abilitiesthat come to the readers mind are, no doubt, those connectedwith the artistic world, where the peculiar mental traits con-nected with genius and ardent desire for self-expression areso well recognized. The mere desire to shine in any of thesefields may be exotic, however, and bespeak no correspondingnatural faculty. The only way to determine such ability is tohave people competent in the artistic world sympatheticallyconduct a special test. Even if discovered, the presence of artis-

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