Explains how community service learning (CSL) is political and how teachers may transform their curriculum by engaging students in issues of social and personal empowerment. It explores how youth leadership in CSL projects offers a means for students to build a new sense of themselves as purposive actors with a commitment to building better…

Details the history of the Catholic Church's involvement in social justice issues from the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) on. Describes social justice programs in schools in the diocese of Albany, New York, as well as other programs. Stresses that social justice activity rises out gratitude for the gift of life and should be seen in the context…

A narrative approach to moral development sees a role for language in moral experience and regards the self as dialogic, or relational, as opposed to the epistemic self of the cognitive-developmental approach. This article reviews empirical foundations of the narrative approach, explores the dialogic conception of the self, and considers…

Discusses the formal system of juvenile corrections in one country and describes several correctional facilities in this system. Also presents another system of justice in the country and the influence of traditional sociocultural values on the operation of both correctional practices for juveniles. (RJM)

Compares youths' perceptions of confinement, feelings of restriction and the impact of these perceptions on youth's reaction to educational and rehabilitative programs they received. Testing of youth in two different countries showed that perceptions were related to their attitudes toward, and reactions to, these programs, although some…

Presents the results from a cross-cultural research project that explored adolescents' interpretation of the social contract (obligations, rights, and responsibilities between individuals and society) in seven countries, including Australia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Sweden, and the United States. Includes appendices and…

Reports on a study of the proportional representation of women administrators by ethnicity from 1991 to 1997 in a sample of 1,030 two-year colleges. States that Hispanic-serving, urban, California two-year colleges and the percentage of women faculty of color entered as significant positive predictors of change in the representation of women…

Project Confirm aims to address the problem of foster children ending up in detention because of police and probation officers' difficulty in locating guardians to appear on behalf of arrested children. Project Confirm locates juveniles' caseworkers and informs them of their legal responsibilities. The program reached most of its implementation…

Ethical issues surrounding Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in the workplace include autonomy; right to privacy and confidentiality; beneficence--requiring caregivers to act in the best interests of clients; nonmaleficence--requiring caregivers not to harm or injure persons; and justice, including questions of employment discrimination and…

Sought global assessments of marital equitability from 62 older adults, and compared men's and women's global equity feelings concerning their relationships with spouses, aged parents, and adult children. Forty younger adults rated equity of their marriages and relationships with parents and grandparents. Majority of both generations' involvements…

Discusses care in relation to the Gilligan-Kohlberg debate, reviewing issues of gender and racial differences. Notes the "caring" professions are predominantly female. Uses examples from recent narrative and interpretive studies to address changing social contexts, caregivers and care recipients, and care's limitations and possibilities…

Children's ombudsmen's work in other countries suggests that a strong, independent, government child advocacy agency can provide an important alternative to overloaded courts and social service agencies. Ombudsmen's programs located within each state government are seen as essential to providing timely, realistic protection for children. (ET)

Analyzes recidivism rates for 50 youths who had been placed at a state juvenile correctional facility for committing a sexual assault against an child. The results indicated that a majority of subjects were not found to be involved with the criminal justice system two years after release. (LKS)

Compares three models positing differing roles for values in predicting fairness judgments and support of affirmative action: Tetlock's (1986) value pluralism models, Lind's (1992) fairness heuristic hypothesis, and Jackman's (1978) model involving no role for values. Results support the fairness heuristic hypothesis, indicating that values play a…

Analyzed narrative accounts of incest perpetrators (10 men, 1 woman) using the concepts of justice and care. Almost all perpetrators defined incest as love and care and viewed their behavior as considerate and fair, although this care and love were contradicted by adults' refusal to stop when children wanted them to stop. (RJM)