Perfect, Imperfect, and Pure Procedural Justice
In A Theory of Justice, the philosopher John Rawls distinguished three ideas of procedural justice:
- Perfect procedural justice has two characteristics: (1) an independent criterion for what constitutes a fair or just outcome of the procedure, and (2) a procedure that guarantees that the fair outcome will be achieved.
- Imperfect procedural justice shares the first characteristic of perfect procedural justice--there is an independent criterion for a fair outcome--but no method that guarantees that the fair outcome will be achieved.
- Pure procedural justice describes situations in which there is no criterion for what constitutes a just outcome other than the procedure itself.
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