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The technological revolution, followed by the rise of industrial cities & juvenile gangs, a diffusion of birth control & a decline in religious behavior, has brought about a shrinkage in the functions of the natural family. The state has taken the role of `super' parent, parens patriae, & it is in this sense that its police power towards dependents must be understood. The delinquent child should be dealt with preventively, through adequate schooling, & protectively through juvenile courts supplemented by clinical services. The administration of criminal justice is obsolete, it needs unification, a reform of prison manag, a substitution of the principle of rehabilitation for the archaic theory of retributive punishment. A scholarly body should be created to watch the criminal law in action. IPSA.

Social justice is that form of justice which impels men to promote the common good; that is, the welfare of the community as such, as a unified entity, and also the common good as comprising the welfare of all members of society. This was the meaning attached to the term by Pope Pius XI. In Atheistic Communism he declared: "It is impossible to care for the social organism and the good of society as a unit unless each single part and each individual member… is supplied with all that is necessary for the exercise of his social functions."