The principle that punishment should be proportionate to the offense as a matter of just deserts, tracing to the lex talionis tradition and, in modern form, to Kant's Science of Right (1790) and Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1821), which argue the offender's punishment answers the wrong done rather than serving only some future social purpose. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Retribution and deterrence are two of the standard, distinct justifications offered for criminal punishment, alongside incapacitation and rehabilitation.
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Retributive justice is a legal concept whereby the criminal offender receives punitive damages proportional or similar to the crime.
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