Which form of justice focuses on remedying harm after a wrongdoing occurred?

• A. Justice
• B. Corrective Justice
• C. Distributive Justice
• D. Natural Law

Answer: (B)

The main concept being tested is how justice responds to wrongdoing by repairing the harm caused. Corrective Justice is about remedying the injury to the victim and restoring balance after a wrongful act, typically through restitution, compensation, or other remedies that make the harmed party as whole as possible. It focuses on the specific harm and the obligation of the wrongdoer to address it.

Distributive justice deals with how goods and burdens are distributed across society, not with repairing a particular harm to an affected person. Natural Law concerns moral principles derived from nature or universal norms, rather than the remedying process after a wrong. Restorative approaches also aim at healing and repairing, but the term that best matches the standard description of remedying harm after wrongdoing is Corrective Justice.