SOCIJALNI STATUS I KOGNITIVNE SPOSOBNOSTI KRIMINALACA
THE SOCIAL STATUS AND COGNITIVE ABILITIES OF CRIMINALS

Summary/Abstract: Relations between 62 indicators of active and passive social status and 3 cognitive tests for evaluation of the efficiency of perceptive, serial and parallel processing of information were analyzed under the model of bi-orthogonal canonical correlation analysis, on a sample of 314 male criminals, aged 21-55. The analysis has produced one significant canonical correlation (0.55), which could be ascribed to asymmetrical relations between the efficiency of cognitive functioning (primarily defined by functions of the perceptive processor) and the position in the social field (primarily defined by the position in the socialization segment of social status characteristics). Since the possibility to predict status characteristics from cognitive characteristics was much greater than the possibility to predict cognitive characteristics from status characteristics, the authors have presumed that the social status of criminals was heavily influenced by their cognitive abilities.

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