A Comparison by Colour, of Boys in a Classifying School

Two STUDIES, previously reported, dealt with differing patterns and rates of offences between coloured, half-coloured and white children and adults. ’ This final paper examines some characteristics of boys admitted to a Classifying (Assessment) School. Apart from one author2 who examined the family variables of boys in an Assessment School the only studies which examined aspects of Classifying (Assessment) Schools were not specifically concerned with colour.3 3 The Assessment School concerned kept detailed records of all the boys on tabulated cards and permission was granted to consult records. The study was therdfore a retrospective one. All coloured and half-coloured boys admitted during the period 1970-73 inclusive were included in the study together with a random sample of white boys over the same period. Because the data used in the assessment school covered a large number of areas of the boy’s personality and background it wa