Legal Comm Unit 1 Study Guide - Justice

________ is the belief that everyone should get the same kind and amount of stuff.

• Justice as fairness

• Justice as equality

• Justice as merit

• Justice as need

________ means any inequalities that exist in a social system should favor the least well-off, because this levels the playing field of society, a type of need-based justice.

• Justice as fairness

• Utilitarianism

• Libertarianism

• Egalitarianism

________ means everyone shouldn’t get the same because our needs aren’t the same, get stuff based on what is needed.

• Need-based justice

• Equality-based justice

• Merit-based justice

• Retributive justice

Justice means giving unequally based on what each person deserves.

• Merit-based justice

• Equality-based justice

• Need-based justice

• Retributive justice

________ is the only way for justice to be satisfied is for a wrongdoer to suffer in proportion to the way they’ve made others suffer.

• Retributive justice

• Restorative justice

• Distributive justice

• Procedural justice

________ is the focus on making amends, rather than on making the wrongdoer suffer.

• Restorative justice

• Retributive justice

• Punitive justice

• Deterrent justice

________ means there’s no good to be found in vindictively causing pain to wrongdoers, but some form of punishment is still in order.

• Welfare maximization

• Retributivism

• Restorative justice

• Deterrence

________ means giving wrongdoers help so they can learn how to get along in society and follow its rules.

• Rehabilitation

• Punishment

• Deterrence

• Retribution

________ means punishment is for the good of society as a whole, we punish people to send a message to other people.

• Deterrence

• Retribution

• Rehabilitation

• Restitution

________ is the right not to be interfered with, not stopping from pursuing the things you need.

• Negative Right

• Positive Right

• Legal Right

• Moral Right