Intellectual and Educational Characteristics of Court-Identified and School-Identified Violent and Assaultive Youth

Abstract

Results from the scores of 20 court-identified and 20 school-identified violent and assaultive youth were compared on the Revised Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R) and the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT). Uncorrelated t tests indicated that IQs, three of the WISC-R subtests (i.e., Vocabulary, Comprehension, Coding), and the PIA T Reading Comprehension Reading Recognition, and Spelling scores differentiated si cantly between the two groups. The possibility that courtfied violent and assaultive youth have more severe cognitive nat contri cessively aggressive behavior educational implica A North Carolina class action suit on behalf of violent and assaultive youth (Willie M. et al. v. James B. Hunt, Jr. et al. [Willie M.], 1979)