CRIM 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Distributive Justice, Limited Government, Immanuel Kant
8 Dec 2016
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Crim 315 week 4 (may 31st, 2016) ****may have missed some notes, refer to slides**** Corrective justice (correction system, ministry of justice, police) Distributive justice (taxation, welfare system honor and property are finite and should be distributed equally) Violation of rights is crime; so restoring those rights is the main goal of the justice system. People have certain duties to themselves and others. Derived from the notion of respect for persons : responsibility to each other. The good person is not the person who through kindness helps another, but the person who helps because that is the right thing to do (p. 70) Rawlsian approach from john rawls" a theory of justice (1971) Social contract/agreement between citizens and the rulers: certain obligations to the community. Tsedaka justice as a continuing reach for peace and reconciliation (hebrew) Justice must be lived everyday between individuals (godwin) Restoring peace, balance and community between people and their environment, restoring people and relationships (aboriginal)
