Sense of Injustice

The importance of justice cannot be overstated. As one author has put it, "A better understanding of how justice concerns develop and function in people''s lives should enable us to plan more effectively for institutional and other social change to deal with the problems that confront humankind" (S. C. Lerner, 1981, p. 466). The volume in which that statement appeared-an earlier one in this same s...