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  2. Retributive justice - Wikipedia

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    Retributive justice is a legal concept whereby the criminal offender receives punishment proportional or similar to the crime.As opposed to revenge, retribution—and thus retributive justice—is not personal, is directed only at wrongdoing, has inherent limits, involves no pleasure at the suffering of others (i.e., schadenfreude, sadism), and employs procedural standards.

  3. Criminal justice - Wikipedia

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    Criminal justice is the delivery of justice to those who have been accused of committing crimes. ... [17] retributive justice, [18] restorative justice. [19]

  4. Theory of criminal justice - Wikipedia

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    Retributive justice is perhaps best captured by the phrase lex talionis (the principle of "an eye for an eye"), which traces back to the Code of Hammurabi. Criminal law generally falls under retributive justice, a theory of justice that considers proportionate punishment a morally acceptable response to crime.

  5. Community sentence - Wikipedia

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    Community sentence [1] [2] or alternative sentencing or non-custodial sentence is a collective name in criminal justice for all the different ways in which courts can punish a defendant who has been convicted of committing an offense, other than through a custodial sentence (serving a jail or prison term) or capital punishment (death).

  6. Restorative justice - Wikipedia

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    Restorative justice is an approach to justice that aims to repair the harm done to victims. [1] [2] In doing so, practitioners work to ensure that offenders take responsibility for their actions, to understand the harm they have caused, to give them an opportunity to redeem themselves, and to discourage them from causing further harm.

  7. Democracy Advocates Fear Trump Is Already Proving Their ... - AOL

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    The new order appears to enable Trump to seek retribution against those who took part in his criminal prosecutions. Trump also made clear that crossing him could prove physically hazardous.

  8. Eye for an eye - Wikipedia

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    However the reciprocal justice applies across social boundaries: the "eye for eye" principle is directly followed by the proclamation "You are to have one law for the alien and the citizen." [31] This shows a much more meaningful principle for social justice, in that the marginalized in society were given the same rights under the social structure.

  9. The fight to stop a cornerstone of Trump's 'retribution ... - AOL

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    Trump is pushing for the return of Schedule F, which would make it easier for a president to fire government workers. But groups are trying to stop him from getting that power.