Answer to Question #201923 in Management for Moses Otchere

Question

Criminal behaviour is explicitly linked to human intelligence and race. Discuss this statement by accounting for the relationships of human intelligence to race

Answer 1

IQ is related to delinquency within race categories (Hirschi & Hindelang, 1977, p. 575). From Hirschi & Hindelang ( 1977) research, students with low intelligence had difficulty in school and, as a result, were more likely to engage in delinquency—ergo, given that Blacks have traditionally scored lower on IQ tests, they are likely to commit more crimes (see, more recently, Herrnstein & Murray, 1994).