Editing Procedural justice (section)

== Rawls on procedural justice ==
In ''[[A Theory of Justice]]'', philosopher [[John Rawls]] distinguished three ideas of procedural justice:<ref>Rawls, A Theory of Justice, revised edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999 Chapter II, Section 14</ref>
#''Perfect procedural justice'' has two characteristics: (1) an independent criterion for what constitutes a fair or just outcome of the procedure, and (2) a procedure that guarantees that the fair outcome will be achieved.
#''Imperfect procedural justice'' shares the first characteristic of perfect procedural justice—there is an independent criterion for a fair outcome—but no method that guarantees that the fair outcome will be achieved.
#''Pure procedural justice'' describes situations in which there is no criterion for what constitutes a just outcome other than the procedure itself.