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Retributive Justice

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
The topic of this chapter is the relationship between retributive justice and distributive justice. The author expounds his view that retributive justice should be noncomparative, and that the currency of retributive desert should be suffering. Some theories of distributive justice employ desert as a basis for distribution, whereas other theories of ...
Larry Alexander, Alexander Larry
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Social justice and retributive justice

open access: yesSocial Dynamics, 2008
This paper argues that our primary concern in responding to wrongdoing should be distinct from our concern with the just distribution of wealth: retributive justice serves an important moral end that is independent of the promotion of welfare. I proceed by comparing retributive justice to restorative justice, because the latter offers a paradigm often ...
Lucy Allais (16059272)
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Retributive, Restorative and Ritualistic Justice

open access: yesOxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2010
Few defences of retribution in criminal justice make a plausible case for the view that punishment plays a necessary role in restoring relations between offenders, victims and the community. Even fewer defences of retribution make a plausible appeal to the interpersonal practice of apologizing as a symbolically adequate model for criminal justice. This
Brownlee, Kimberley
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On retributive justice

Dialectical Anthropology, 1987
suffering so that the offender pays his "debt", and this in turn reinforces the validity of the norms-and-rules. Social justice is thus restored. Retribution has been defined as social sanction, but "social sanction" is far from being identical with retribution.
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