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The 27 pages that link to Retributive justice, each with the reason it gives.

• Free willRelated: Its justification depends on whether agents can be responsible in a desert-based sense.

• Restorative justiceCompared with: It contrasts with restorative justice's emphasis on repairing harm and meeting affected parties' needs.

• Transitional justiceCompared with: Its emphasis on punishment can conflict with approaches prioritizing truth, repair, or negotiated transition.

• Moral responsibilityRelated: Retributivism makes moral responsibility and desert central grounds for punishment.

• Criminal lawRelated: It justifies criminal penalties through deserved accountability for past offenses.

• Procedural justiceRelated: Punishment systems must address both fair procedures and the justification of sanctions.

• Capital punishmentRelated: It supplies a major justification for imposing death as deserved punishment.

• Social justiceCompared with: It concerns accountability for offenses rather than the distribution of social goods.

• Moral judgmentRelated: It links judgments of blame to judgments about deserved punishment.

• ReconciliationCompared with: Its emphasis on deserved punishment differs from reconciliation’s concern with relationship repair.

• JusticeBroader topic: It concerns what justice requires after a person commits a wrong.

• Book of JobRelated: The friends rely on this principle, while Job’s case exposes its limits.

• ResponsibilityRelated: It links established responsibility to the claim that wrongdoers deserve punishment.

• Wisdom literatureRelated: Job challenges the assumption that suffering reliably signals wrongdoing.

• Divine justiceRelated: It clarifies the logic behind punishment as a deserved response to wrongdoing.

• Criminal justice systemRelated: Retribution is one rationale used to justify criminal penalties.

• Juvenile justiceCompared with: Its emphasis on deserved punishment can conflict with juvenile law’s rehabilitative rationale.

• Life imprisonmentRelated: It supplies a central rationale for imposing exceptionally long sentences.

• Prison abolition movementCompared with: Abolition rejects punishment as the organizing principle for addressing harm.

• Age of criminal responsibilityCompared with: Its emphasis on culpability raises the question of what children can deserve punishment for.

• ImprisonmentRelated: It grounds imprisonment in deserved punishment rather than primarily in future benefits.

• Parable of the Prodigal SonCompared with: The father's welcome differs from the punishment the younger son's actions might seem to warrant.

• Poetic justiceRelated: It provides a legal and ethical counterpart to punishment that fits a fictional offense.

• Soghomon TehlirianRelated: The case tests whether punishment can answer atrocities when their perpetrators evade ordinary prosecution.

• Job (biblical figure)Compared with: Job’s friends apply this principle, while Job’s innocence challenges its simple use.

• PenologyCompared with: It grounds punishment in deserved consequences rather than future crime reduction.

• History of criminal justiceCompared with: It contrasts with reform movements that justify punishment by future social benefits.