Moral Development in Adolescence

Hart, Daniel
Carlo, Gustavo

Rutgers University (Hart)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Carlo)

Requests for reprints should be sent to Daniel Hart, Center for Children and Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, 08102. E-mail: [email protected]

Journal of Research on Adolescence 15(3):p 223-233, September 2005.

Themes in the papers in this special issue of the JRA on moral development are identified. We discuss the intersection of moral development research with policy concerns, the distinctive qualities of moral life in adolescence that warrant investigation, the multiple connotations of “moral,” the methods typical of moral development research, and the influences that shape adolescent moral development. Suggestions are made for new methods and new directions in the study of moral development.