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UK
/ɹɛtɹˈɪbjuːtˌɪv/
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ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to or having the nature of retribution
retributive justice demands an eye for an eye -
given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts
retributive justice
How To Use retributive In A Sentence
- retributive justice
- But this is not to say that instrumentalists are wholly right, or that Moore is wholly wrong to think that the sole purpose of criminal law is to provide for the retributive punishment of those who culpably commit such wrongs.
- It is arbitrary to impose a sentence that can neither be justified on preventive grounds nor justified on the basis of retributive proportionality.
- But it seems to the Professor that nurture has made women more receptive to the idea of retributive violence.
- The desires involved in these kinds of moral and personal feelings are of the same category as those involved in retributive punishment as we are now understanding it.
- You have distinguished between a restorative form of justice and a retributive form of justice.
- Retributive punishment restores the balance by cancelling out this advantage with a commensurate disadvantage.
- There was a retributive justice for all those who infracted the rules of the game. 'Firebrand' Trevison
- Whether nature or nurture, a common point was the change in attitudes regarding the purpose of justice, shifting from retributive to reformative intent.
- It is often supposed that Americans' retributive streak is linked to their greater religiosity.
