The study tries to determine the ideas and functions of belief and ethics. The authors seek an answer to the question why did the new moral paradigm which was attempted to be created by the socialist movements fail? Finally, the article attempts to find out under what conditions does a truly new moral paradigm have a chance to be realised?

The short study warns against the grave dangers of applying a shock therapy in Hungary. The sinking of two thirds of society bears the danger of the gaining ground of right-wing radicalism.

The author analyses the history of the past few decades of Hungary and the consequences of the change of system from the point of view of constitutional law. He discusses the relationship between the civil society and the legal system and the theoretical background of the category of "law-based state", and then analyses the gaps of the law-based state in the legal system of state socialism (in contrast to summary judgements) and by widening them how did the old system gradually and necessarily grow into the political-legal democracy after the turn. Discussing the constitutional legal system after the turn, he states that it strengthens the state against society. He provides a short criticism of the contradiction of the government's law making activities.

The criminology specialist reviews the recent crime statistics and tries to find the causes of the dramatic upswing in the wave of crimes. In addition to the evident connections between multiple disadvantage and crime, he surveys the psychological types of family influences promoting crime, the crisis of institutions and the changes of social values with special regard to the radical growth of value of material wealth.