"A lot of people focus on justice as returning what was taken, and if it doesn't then is it really worth it?" said Thane Rosenbaum, a law professor at New York University and the author of "Payback," a philosophical examination of justice and revenge.
As retribution became the focus of criminal justice, rehabilitation fell away as a goal of the system.
Slums and industrial zones, so often the exclusive focus of environmental justice advocates, could also attract attention from newly energized activists in the suburbs, where these types of sites are increasingly found.
The focus of energy justice scholarship on centralised, conventional energy systems and associated benefit/burden geographies inspires a discourse revolving around rights of the individual, and responsibilities of the system, and a central concern with violations against communities.
Undeniably, the "War on Drugs" involved more than shifting the focus of the justice and penal systems.
In her work, Kristin Shrader-Frechette identifies the focus of environmental justice as being on the disproportionate burdens faced by socially disempowered individuals and groups (e.g., the poor and racial and ethnic minorities) [ 27, 28].
While the case, Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Reilly, No. 00-596, offers the court an opportunity to set new rules for the constitutional protection of commercial speech, that did not seem to be the focus of the justices' interest during the argument.
The focus of the justices' interest today was entirely on the legal questions raised by the case and on the implications of accepting Alabama's argument that the lower courts should never have permitted the lawsuit to proceed in the first place.
As the New Jersey Legislature prepares to decide this week whether to become the first state to repeal the death penalty since the United States Supreme Court allowed executions to resume in 1976, Mr. Harris's case renews focus on issues of justice and morality in the debate over capital punishment.
The criminal charges focus on obstruction of justice, which Stewart's lawyers (or her "distinguished attorneys," as the lawyers' statement itself puts it) call "most disturbing," not to mention "ironic".
