Restitution vs Retribution - What's the difference?
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(legal) A process of compensation for losses.
The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
* Spenser
* Sandys
A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
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That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
(medicine) The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour.
Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.
*1983 , Richard A. Posner, The economics of justice m p.208:
*:Whereas retribution focuses on the offender's wrong, retaliation focuses on the impulse of the victim (or of those who sympathize with him) to strike back at the offender.
* 1999 , , Medieval crime and social control , p.73:
*:1. Revenge is for an injury; retribution is for a wrong.
*:2. Retribution sets an internal limit to the amount of the punishment according to the seriousness of the wrong; revenge need not.
*:3. Revenge is personal; the agent of retribution need have no special or personal tie to the victim of the wrong for which he exacts retribution.
*:4. Revenge involves a particular emotional tone, pleasure in the suffering of another, while retribution need involve no emotional tone.
As nouns the difference between restitution and retribution
is that restitution is a process of compensation for losses while retribution is punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.restitution
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Noun
(wikipedia restitution)- A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown.
- He restitution to the value makes.
- the restitution of an elastic body