Self-image and delinquency

"This study of female offending based on personal interviews with New Zealand adolescent girls in custody following sentence. ... [It] records and comments on a simple, unstructured test of self-attitudes administerd to most of the borstal girls and to a number of outside control groups. ... The aim of the exercise is to present the basic data - the feelings, thoughts, attitudes of the subjects - and some possible interpretations"--Preface.