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Picture, if you will, what philosophers and other political theorists call a just society. It is not a society that is perfectly just; that is why every society must leave room for mercy. It is a society that has an ideal of perfect social justice that functions as the standard against which the various individual and institutional practices in the society are judged. Each unjust act by an individual or an institution may have a barely perceptible or a catastrophic effect on the society. But each unjust act affects in some degree the fairness of the society as a whole.
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Waithe, M.E. (1991). Perpetrators of Violent Crime as Potential Victims of Research in Prison. In: Sank, D., Caplan, D.I. (eds) To Be a Victim. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5974-4_13
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