This study analyzes the reasoning process through which individuals determine what consequences are appropriate for those who do wrong. The authors presented six cases of wrongdoing to a large number of teenagers and young adults. This sample was asked what consequences would be appropriate for the wrongdoers and why those proposed consequences would be appropriate. On the basis of the data obtained from the participants, the authors constructed a taxonomy to use in categorizing features of moral reasoning. The authors then applied the taxonomy to compare group and individual modes of moral decision making. The study is significant in its reliance on original data and on its analysis of the thought processes involved in moral decision making.

What Wrongdoers Deserve: The Moral Reasoning Behind Responses to Misconduct (Contributions in Psychology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Thomas, R. Murray

Diver-Stamnes, Ann

Philosophy

Praeger

Prevent, Repent, Reform, Revenge is a study of the aims that people intend to achieve by the sanctions and treatments they recommend for wrongdoers. The book is designed to answer two main questions: What kind of analytical scheme can profitably reveal the nature of people's reasoning about the aims of sanctions they propose for perpetrators of crimes and misdeeds? In the aims that people express what changes in overt moral reasoning patterns appear between later childhood and the early adult years? The authors conducted interviews with 136 youths between the ages of 9 and 21 to find out what sanctions and aims they felt were appropriate in three cases of wrongdoing. The resulting information provides an important insight into adolescent moral development.

Prevent, Repent, Reform, Revenge: A Study in Adolescent Moral Development (Contributions in Psychology) (International Contributions in Psychology)

This compelling examination (by a former high school teacher in Watts, Los Angeles) shows how poverty affects the lives of young people.This book is a wake-up call to the nation dealing with the realities of the lives of young people living in poverty in the inner city. The perspective is unique: it combines the voices of students attending a high school in the Watts community of Los Angeles with current research to create a clearer picture of the lives of people who live in poverty and some of the factors which serve to perpetuate that poverty. The author focuses on issues cited by individuals who blame the poor for their own plight as evidence that those living in poverty are responsible for the state of their lives: academic failure, problematic family dynamics, adolescent maternity, child abuse, substance abuse, and gang membership. She debunks the myths and negative stereotypes about inner-city youth and challenges those blaming the poor, thereby providing the reader the opportunity to explore the socio-political realities of living in poverty.

Lives in the Balance: Youth, Poverty, and Education in Watts (Suny Series, Urban Voices, Urban Visions)

Social Sciences

State University of New York Press

This compelling examination (by a former high school teacher in Watts, Los Angeles) shows how poverty affects the lives of young people. This book is a wake-up call to the nation dealing with the realities of the lives of young people living in poverty in the inner city. The perspective is unique: it combines the voices of students attending a high school in the Watts community of Los Angeles with current research to create a clearer picture of the lives of people who live in poverty and some of the factors which serve to perpetuate that poverty. The author focuses on issues cited by individuals who blame the poor for their own plight as evidence that those living in poverty are responsible for the state of their lives: academic failure, problematic family dynamics, adolescent maternity, child abuse, substance abuse, and gang membership. She debunks the myths and negative stereotypes about inner-city youth and challenges those blaming the poor, thereby providing the reader the opportunity to explore the socio-political realities of living in poverty.

Lives in the Balance (Suny Series, Urban Voices, Urban Vision)

SUNY Press

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What Wrongdoers Deserve: The Moral Reasoning Behind Responses to Misconduct (Contributions in Psychology)

Prevent, Repent, Reform, Revenge: A Study in Adolescent Moral Development (Contributions in Psychology) (International Contributions in Psychology)

Lives in the Balance: Youth, Poverty, and Education in Watts (Suny Series, Urban Voices, Urban Visions)

Lives in the Balance (Suny Series, Urban Voices, Urban Vision)