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Reflections on a Social Psychology of Justice: Implications for Restorative Justice Practices

Liu, James H
June 4, 2015

Source: (2007) In Gabrielle Maxwell and James H. Liu, ed., Restorative Justice and Practices in New Zealand: Towards a Restorative Society. Wellington, NZ: Institute of Policy Studies, Pp. 275-287.

“The ‘market metaphor’ of justice, based around inputs and outputs and rewards and costs, has dominated the literature rather than the perhaps more primal language of crime and punishment. Hence, we focus our review on distributive and procedural justice, as well as the scope of justice, and only touch on the issue of retributive justice.” (Abstract)

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