"They are striking independently, as they wish, and they are choosing their own methods of retribution".
The whites had a method of seeking retribution that was a disgrace to Christianity – that of punishing a tribe, probably an innocent one, for the crime of an individual.
The conventional wisdom about the primary purpose of sentencing shifted away from rehabilitation as a dominant philosophy and toward retribution or 'just deserts". The method of sentencing shifted away from broad judicial discretion to be exercised on a case-bycase basis and toward narrower authority constrained by rules laid down by legislatures or sentencing commissions.
The conventional wisdom about the primary purpose of sentencing shifted away from rehabilitation as a dominant philosophy and toward retribution or 'just deserts". The method of sentencing shifted away from broad judicial discretion to be exercised on a case-by-case basis and toward narrower authority constrained by rules laid down by legislatures or sentencing commissions.
The supposed mistreatment of family members as a method of exacting retribution for speech deemed unfavorable to the government has also been reported by in Syria, where expatriate activists say their family members back home have faced threats and physical abuse at the hands of the Syrian authorities for their antigovernment activities abroad.
The decade before the war saw his opposition to slavery and to the federal government reach its peak: The Liberator denounced the Compromise of 1850, condemned the Kansas-Nebraska Act, damned the Dred Scott decision, and hailed John Brown's raid as "God's method of dealing retribution upon the head of the tyrant".
A general amnesty for incarcerated non-violent drug offenders would open the way to a new approach based on truth and reconciliation principals and restorative justice methods, instead of retribution and punishment.
But their ultra-violent methods aim to provoke social segregation and retribution, a clash of civilisations.
D'Amato's methods harken back to the days of machine politics: the politics of distribution and retribution.
Such jerking of the narrative web could be Lazar's method of unsettling the reader's expectations of cause and effect of conjuring, once more, a world in which the retribution does not necessarily follow the crime.
In other words, under this theory, the best way to stronger, more equitable economies is not by relying on traditional methods of sovereign control, in which strong powers dictate to weak ones, often sowing resentment, resistance and retribution.
