AGE AND A GROUP TEST BATTERY AS PREDICTORS OF TYPES OF CRIME.

The article focuses on age and a group test battery as predictors of types of crime. Age and a group test battery were used to predict types of crimes committed by offenders, classified according to offense as classified into three groups: crimes against persons, crimes against property, and paper-and-pencil crimes. The data were analyzed by a stepwise discriminate function regression analysis. The cases were classified correctly into the three groups by the tests, when compared to actual crimes committed better than would be expected by chance.