{"id":356747,"date":"2026-02-25T15:14:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=356747"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:14:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:44:59","slug":"principle-of-just-deserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/principle-of-just-deserts\/","title":{"rendered":"Principle of Just Deserts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court of India stressed the <\/span><strong>principle of just deserts <\/strong>and held that <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">compensation and reducing the sentence of convicts cannot replace punishment.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>About Principle of Just Deserts<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_356752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-356752\" style=\"width: 329px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-356752\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Source-iPleaders.jpg?resize=329%2C219&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Principle of Just Deserts\" width=\"329\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Source-iPleaders.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Source-iPleaders.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Source-iPleaders.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Source-iPleaders.jpg?w=1306&amp;ssl=1 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-356752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; iPleaders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Principle of Just Deserts is rooted in the <\/span><b>retributive theory of punishment,<\/b> <b>which emphasises that people, as responsible agents,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> deserve to be <strong>punished when they break the law<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a<\/span><b> principle of punishment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which argues that<\/span><b> criminal sanctions should be proportional to the seriousness of the offence.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also held that the punishment given to an offender for the commission of <\/span><b>a particular crime should also be given to a person who commits the same crime.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>seriousness of the offence and its core components determine the level of moral outrage and the magnitude of punishment <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">under the just deserts principle.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Supreme Court of India stressed the principle of just deserts and held that compensation and reducing the sentence of convicts cannot replace punishment. About Principle of Just Deserts The Principle of Just Deserts is rooted in the retributive theory of punishment, which emphasises that people, as responsible agents, deserve to be punished when&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/principle-of-just-deserts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Principle of Just Deserts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,12039],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-356747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}