Abstract

The paper offers a systematic analysis of the relation between discrimination and justice, a surprisingly neglected topic. It examines the relation between discrimination and various types of injustice—corrective, retributive, distributive and relational—and concludes that while discrimination often leads to various sorts of injustice this is not always the case. If some act or policy is an instance of discrimination, it is not necessarily unjust, and if some act or policy is an instance of injustice, it is not necessarily discriminatory. So injustice isn’t what makes wrongful discrimination wrong.