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In the United States, discourse on law and order are often juxtaposed to discourse on social justice. Indeed, throughout American history, corrective justice (as with punishment) has often been found in opposition to distributive justice (as when all individuals get their fair share in life). Proponents of corrective justice call for law and order to prevent disruption of the social order, while opponents look to social justice as the means for creating a more orderly social system. Some have explained the disagreements over order and justice as rooted in the pluralistic nature of American society (Pound, 1906). Others have argued that what you see depends upon where you sit (Black, 1976; Chambliss, 1982; Nader, 1986). Whatever the origin of the dis-sensus, debates about order are really debates about justice. However, it may be that discourse centered on law and order or social justice does little more than sustain the status quo, while discussion of injustice would force an examination of concrete events rather than abstract ideals and interrupt the oscillation between government programs to cure law and order problems and government programs to address questions of social injustice. The central question of this chapter is a conceptual one—what type of discourse would work to produce needed social transformations.
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Nader, L. (1990). The Origin of Order and the Dynamics of Justice. In: New Directions in the Study of Justice, Law, and Social Control. Critical Issues in Social Justice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3608-0_9
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