A Search for Neuropsychological Indicators: A Comparative Study with Children with Conflict in Law
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https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v17i1.18917Keywords:
law violation, children in conflict with law, internalising, externalising, neuropsychological marker.Abstract
Law violation amongst adolescents have become a very important area of concern for the nation as a whole. In
the current study, the objectives are to find whether there exist any neuropsychological markers that will help to
differentiate children in conflict with law (CCL) from neurotypicals who have never engaged in law violation and
also to find whether there exists any significant difference between CCL-I, CCL-E and CCL-M with respect to the
neuropsychological markers. The sample included 59 adolescents out of which 10 were neurotypicals, 14 CCL
with predominantly internalising manifestation (CCL-I), 17 CCL with predominantly externalising manifestation
(CCL-E), 18 CCL with both internalising and externalising manifestation (CCL-M). The tools used in the study are
Child Behaviour Checklist- Youth Self Report(CBCL/YSR), Bhatia Battery of Performance tests and three subtests
from Delis- Kaplan Executive Functioning System. Statistical analysis was done using Kruskal Wallis test. Test
results included significant differences between the groups with respect to ‘Twenty Questions Test’ and ‘Colourword
Interference Test’.
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