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What is reparative justice? /

The idea of reparation, of amends owed for wrongs and wrongful harms, is ancient, universal, and a basic intuition of justice. Yet despite its ancient and distinguished lineage in Western philosophy, its familiar role in legal remedies for unjust losses and takings, and its increasing application to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walker, Margaret Urban, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milwaukee, Wisconsin : Marquette University Press, [2010]
Colección:Aquinas lecture ; 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The idea of reparation, of amends owed for wrongs and wrongful harms, is ancient, universal, and a basic intuition of justice. Yet despite its ancient and distinguished lineage in Western philosophy, its familiar role in legal remedies for unjust losses and takings, and its increasing application to victims of political violence and repression, reparative justice has not received the wide consideration and sustained debate in contemporary thought that distributive and retributive justice have enjoyed. A fully developed conception of reparative justice would answer at least the following quest.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (70 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780874621785
087462178X