What do we know today about the relationship between IQ and crime?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: [key points to be made]
*No longer accept early 1900s view that feeblemindedness is lower class trait
*IQ more viewed as predisposing factor rather than cause of any behavior
*No evidence for direct relationship between race or ethnicity and IQ
*1970s studies tended to support idea that IQ was a reasonable predictor of delinquency
*IQ tests contain inherent bias for middle class and white, measures language skill more than innate intelligence
*IQ may be only be related to school performance thus indirectly school adjustment as well as to peer pressure and self-control
*Strengthening IQ may build resistance to delinquency through stronger school ties
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