The UN Compensation Commission: Practical Justice, not Retribution

Empowerment and Retribution in Criminal and Restorative Justice*

Contrary to the implied suggestion in many restorative justice critiques of the status quo, the chief strength of restorative justice interventions does not lie in their rejection of punitiveness and retribution, but the empowerment of communities of care who are the most likely to respond effectively to both the causes and the consequences of criminal wrongdoing. Thus, it is the empowerment of...

Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation

This paper develops a framework for studying individuals’ ideas about what constitutes just compensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay and the principles guiding ideas of justice among students pursuing a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Sweden and the United States. The framework, based on justice theory and making use of Rossi’s f...

Doctors and retribution: the hospitalisation of compensation claims in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

The cultures in the Papua New Guinea Highlands are characterised by a tradition of retribution. Compensation is part of an elaborate system of exchanging gifts, goods and services. Compensation is paid to those who have suffered some kind of loss for which others are held responsible. Such incidents include death or injury caused by fighting, a road accident or domestic violence, theft, rape, g...

Fukushima: Catastrophe, Compensation, and Justice in Japan

Report of the National Commission on Unemployment Compensation.

Unemployment insurance is one of the Nation’s basic Social Security programs. When Congress established the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program in 1935, it also created the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program in titles III and IX of the Social Security Act. Although it has been subject to review and study over the years, the UI system received its first comprehensive examination through con...