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Restorative Justice, Retributive Justice, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Allais, Lucy |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | Following its first democratic elections in 1994, the post-apartheid state established in 1995 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), as part of its response to the injustices of the apartheid past and their ongoing effect on the present. One of the main ways the TRC was theorized at the time was as falling under the paradigm of “restorative justice,” which was opposed to “retributive justice,” which was associated with Nuremberg-style prosecutions of wrongdoers. Arguments for restorative justice often appeal to the idea that it is concerned with superior moral values to those that retributivism |
| Starting Page | 331 |
| Ending Page | 363 |
| Page Count | 33 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1088-4963.2012.01211.x |
| Volume Number | 39 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.mit.edu/~shaslang/mprg/AllaisRJRJ.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1088-4963.2012.01211.x |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |