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Investigating moral identity and moral motivation from a developmental and criminological perspective accomplishes two contradictory research goals. On the one hand, developmental research on morality argues that establishing moral identity begins with adolescence and moral motivation further increases with age, especially between childhood and adolescence.
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Doering, B. (2013). The Development of Moral Identity and Moral Motivation in Childhood and Adolescence. In: Handbook of Moral Motivation. Moral Development and Citizenship Education, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-275-4_17
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