ABSTRACT
What is the meaning of justice? This chapter suggests that a valuable strategy to pursue when pondering the meaning of justice is to ask whether an action will reduce or increase the amount of domination in the world. In support of the claim that domination is at the very core of crime, the chapter outlines how feminist criminologists, corporate criminologists, students of poverty and crime and analysts of war crime all argue that domination tends to increase crime. The author concludes that it is possible to have both an undominated dialogue on what to do about some criminal behaviour and to come to practical agreement on what to do about it – even though the agreed solutions might be based upon contradictory philosophical positions.
