There has been a recent theoretical separation leading to a third
category – interactional justice (Bies, 2001) – concerning the ways in which decisions
are made and the ways in which they are implemented and communicated, sometimes
subdivided into interpersonal justice – how people are treated – and informational
justice – how people are informed about why outcomes are distributed as they are
and why particular procedures are used. There are clear resonances of the idea of
distributive justice both in political theory and in disciplines like criminology where it
provides some explanation for deviant behaviour (Lea and Young, 1996).