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| Rawl ' idea that people will develop fair principles of distribution only if they are ignorant of their position in society so in order to get objective judgements the decision maker must not know hhothead decision would affect him or her. |
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| Concerns just deserts- in other words the appropriate amount of punishment for a crime |
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| Component of justice that concerns the steps taken to reach a determination of guilt punishment or other conclusion of law |
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| The component of justice that concerns the determination and methods of punishment |
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| A vengeance - oriented justice concerned with equal retaliation (an eye for an eye; tooth for a tooth) |
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| A form of justice that allows compensation; the harm can be repaired by payment or atonement. |
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| Ancient right based on church power ; allow a person respite from punishment as long as he or she was within the confines of church grounds |
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| The type of justice that looks to the greatest good for all as the end |
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| Jeremy Bentham's rationale for calculating the potential rewards of a crime so the amount of threatened pain could be set to deter people from committing that crime |
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| Constitutionally mandated procedural steps designed to eliminate error in any governmental deprivation of protected liberty life or property. |
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