Synonym: relatiative, retaliatory, retributory, vindicatory. Similar words: retribution, attributive, contribution, contributing, distribution, retroactive, retroactively, retrospective. Meaning: [rɪ'trɪbjətɪv /-jʊt-] 
adj. 1. of or relating to or having the nature of retribution 2. given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts.
adj. 1. of or relating to or having the nature of retribution 2. given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts. 
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1. They are expressive of the sentiments of retributive justice that Beccaria wished to exclude from consideration of punishments.
2. Retributive punishment restores the balance by cancelling out this advantage with a commensurate disadvantage.
3. These days the retributive model of justice is beginning to crack under the weight of its own consequences.
4. One problem is how to give the retributive principle a moral grounding in the first place.
5. Retributive punishment implies three value paradoxes.
6. Retributive justice demands an eye for an eye.
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7. The essence of religion is life transmigration, retributive justice and undying of soul.
8. Retributive violence would add to the risk of further terrorism, and it may also add to the risk of escalation to the use of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons by a terrorist group.
9. After rethinking the traditional idea of retributive punishment, modern criminal policies have made some turnings.
10. He holds retributive punishment, while he is not against the punishment which had other aims.
11. Then under the influence of the Buddhist ethic of "law of cause and effect", stories of Baogong involved large quantities of "retributive" narration usually with attempt of moral "admonishment".
12. But a grim and retributive mood settled over predominantly Sunni areas.
13. The result was the uneasy compromise between deterrent and retributive aims that characterised neoclassicism.
14. It arose in argument and action concerned with freedom[sentencedict.com], retributive and distributive justice.
15. The research goal lies in penetrates "Qin Kuai" this concrete object, the inquisition retributive justice's cultural connotation.
16. The response to crime has gone through many methods such as retaliative punishment, deterrent punishment, retributive punishment, correctional punishment and eclectic punishment.
17. At the same time, conflict and fusion between the Buddhist comeuppance theory and the traditional retributive view in China are analyzed when Buddhism was prosperous in Tang and Song.
18. His conception of the criminal law turned on the idea of retributive justice.
19. This section includes two parts. The first part is the analysis of elementary content of legal retributive punishment, such as: the theory of human nature, responsibility, foundation of punishment.
20. As a new model of dispute resolution, restorative justice is quite different from the traditional retributive justice.
21. Equality and common flourishing as the goal of politics have formed the basis of distributive and retributive justice in political thought from Laozi to Kang Youwei.
22. Members of the council had spoken in past weeks about their desire for a bloodless, "white" revolution, without a wave of retributive arrests or executions. Such notions now seemed na?ve.
23. In the second part, the author analyzes that the theory of penal essence in our country should include Hegel's legal retributive punishment.
24. The end of punishment is an ancient topic which is limited in the doctrine of retributive punishment and the prevention of crimes doctrine.
25. The onus is now on the Libyan people to show restraint and respect for the rule of law in dealing with regime officials and soldiers, and to refrain from vigilantism and retributive justice.
26. The second part is the analysis of specific content of legal retributive punishment, such as: the concept and meaning of punishment, the application of punishment, the system of punishment.
27. From the angle of the relationship between justice and social order, retributive justice means suppressing and sacrificing the demand of protecting social order.
28. As the representative of the school of thought that favors classical criminology, Hegel's theory of retributive punishment has a profound influence on posterity's theory of penal essence.
29. The pattern of restorative judicature differs greatly from the pattern of traditional retributive justice, which takes great advantage of the criminal's penitence, repentance, and the victim's pardon.
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