Intellectual giftedness for leadership: How robust is the crime reducing effect of intellectual class?

• Main Authors: Burhan, Nik Ahmad Sufian, Che Razak, Razli, Selamat, Muhamad Rosli, Rosli, Muhamad Ridhwan
• Format: Indexed Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7422/1/intellectual%20giftedness.pdf; http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7422/; https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/77467/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Kelantan

This paper aims to reassess Burhan et al.‟s (2014, Intelligence, 47, 12–22) findings on the impact of intelligence (IQ) on the crime rates at a cross-country level. People who belong to the intellectual group, characterized by IQ at the 95th percentile of a normal distribution were found to have a t...