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This article reports on findings from the first stage of a longer study of the realities of offending in Romania, which has the highest incarceration rate in Europe. The main goals of the research were to make an accurate estimate of the number of Rroma (Gypsy) men in Romanian prisons and to identify their socio‐cultural characteristics and criminality. The information from this study will be used to help facilitate the work of the developing probation service in Romania and the social integration of Rroma offenders. It should also inform a crime reduction strategy in Romania and hopefully, the social inclusion policies of the European Commission, Romania and its accession neighbours all having large Rroma communities.

Two groups of children are described, some adopted out of their country of origin and some adopted in their own country. Utilizing a family systems model adaptable across countries, the impact of institutionalization on later child behavior is examined. Results will assist practitioners to develop a protocol to assess the family and the child at various ages, regardless of country of origin.

Reports on results of the Carpathian Project, which compared patterns of national identity and ethnocentric perspectives of ethnic Rumanian and Hungarian minorities in nine categories and their attitudes toward each other; based on interviews of 717 Rumanian and 1,090 Hungarian individuals; 1997-98.

'Mass Media in Revolution and National Development: The Romanian Laboratory,' by Peter Gross, is reviewed.