Adler is right

Abstract

The birth order of 249 prison inmates in jail for felony, drunkenness, and miscellaneous crimes between 1977 and 1986 was examined using chi-square analysis. There were significantly more first- and last-born people (combined) in jail for each of the above three categories of crimes than there were middle-born people. These data are among the few available current evidences bearing on Alfred Adler’s notion that first- and last-born children are more likely to be drunkards and criminals than are middle-born children. © 1987, The psychonomic Society, Inc.. All rights reserved.