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The study of justice and its relationship to law—how justice is constructed, contested, and often separated from legal outcomes. Justiciology examines what societies call 'just,' how justice is performed in courts and media, and how victims and perpetrators are framed. It draws on philosophy of law, critical criminology, and social movements research to analyze restorative justice, retributive systems, and the gap between legal verdicts and moral desert. Justiciology reveals that justice is not a fixed ideal but a battlefield: who gets to define it, and whose suffering is deemed worthy of redress?
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