CRIM 338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Procedural Justice, Distributive Justice, Instrumental And Value Rationality
6 Apr 2019
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Crim 338 - lecture 10 - obligation to obey the law & punishment. Justice is a set of principles required for choosing the various social arrangements which determine the division of advantages and for underwriting an agreement on the proper distributive shares. These principles are the principles of social justice; they provide a way of assigning rights and duties in the basic institutions of society and they define the appropriate distribution of the benefits and burdens of social cooperation. - Procedural justice - looks at procedure of justice. Idea that ppl behind veil of ignorance stripped of all info about themselves. Rational, in that they use the most effective means to reach their goals. Mutually disinterested, in that none of them take any interest in the well-being of other people. Equal, in that they all have the same rights in the procedure for choosing principles; each can make proposals, submit reasons for their acceptance, and so on .
