Synopsis
A foundational case that crime should be understood as harm to relationships requiring repair, not merely as lawbreaking demanding punishment.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Modern copyrighted workJustice should ask who was harmed and what they need, rather than only which rule was broken and what punishment is owed.
It reorients justice from abstract retribution toward repairing concrete harm to victims and communities.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with H. L. A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility.
Reading note
Read it as a paradigm shift, contrasting its restorative lens point by point against the retributive one.
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H. L. A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility
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