The article defends four broad theses: that repentance is the intrinsically appropriate response to moral wrongdoing (Part II); that legal punishment may seek to facilitate repentance and, when repentance is in evidence prior to the completion of a justified punishment, that it can be a legitimate ground for the merciful reduction of the offender’s sentence (Part III); that according repentance...

according to the free will principle, man is responsible for his actions and will be punished accordingly. therefore, acting against the law of shari’a in islam leads to punishment and in islamic jurisprudence there are prefixed punishments for many crimes called “hadd”. but there are some elements like repentance that extinguish “hadd”, so that the criminal will be forgiven and excused. concen...

Three studies, using diverse methodologies and measures, were conducted to examine the role that the regulatory focus of an injured party and of a transgressor (E. T. Higgins, 1997, 2000) plays in explaining the relationship between repentance and forgiveness. The authors predicted that when a victim's regulatory focus (i.e., promotion vs. prevention) was congruent (i.e., fit) with the regulato...