Family, Justice, and Delinquency

by Brenda Geiger and Michael Fischer

Nuclear family and kibbutz childrearing practices are compared from a Rawlsian perspective of justice. Based upon the kibbutz educational system, which has reinstituted the family, Geiger and Fischer propose a model of educational change for consideration in the United States. This model is designed to strengthen the nuclear family while improving the prospects of disadvantaged, anomic, and unattached youth.

Geiger and Fischer examine, within...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313294585
• ISBN13: 9780313294587
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"