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To answer the question of Socrates “What is justice?” would seem at the very least to require an answer something like: setting things right, or attempting to remedy some condition of imbalance. This answer, in turn, has generally meant that considerations of justice are divided into two parts: a retributive aspect and a distributive1 aspect. These categories are not mutually exclusive; on the contrary, they are often intimately related, but for the purpose of this discussion, they may be separated.
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Fell, G.S. (1991). Street-Crime Victim Compensation, Retributive Justice, and Social-Contract Theory. In: Sank, D., Caplan, D.I. (eds) To Be a Victim. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5974-4_6
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