ABSTRACT
D. Durkin reports the disquieting fact that amongst his sample of adolescents he found even seventeen-year-olds making moral judgments more appropriate to infants. J. F. Morris appears to have been prompted to work in this area of value-judgements as a direct result of this deficiency. He begins by noting that 'there has been a marked lack of field studies tracing this development particularly in the period of adolescence'. He is basically concerned with the development of adolescent moral judgments. Children and adolescents make moral judgments based firstly on authority, then on considerations of equality and finally by the principle of equity. The path of development passes consecutively through these three stages, but these need not be mutually exclusive in an individual, in addition other factors may determine the rate of this development. Thus because of personal and social factors it is possible to find all three kinds of moral judgment displayed not only by children but also by adolescents.
