Does Moral and Social Conventional Reasoning Predict British Young People's Judgments About the Rights of Asylum-Seeker Youth?

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-62

  Ruck, Martin D ^a   Tenenbaum, Harriet R ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYLUM SEEKER; COGNITION; MORALITY; SOCIAL POLICY; THEORETICAL STUDY; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 84896764091     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: 15404560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/josi.12046     Document Type: Article

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