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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4687245" data-attributes="member: 54846">Third vote for Ilmater. His name popped into my head when I read the thread title. Although I agree with an above poster that any god of Justice will do. Justice implies that the guilty will be punished justly. But with most notions of Justice there is a role for the guilty - the guilty to accept their punishment, the guilty to reform (after they get out of jail, for instance). "The right thing to do" is important here - to a Justice god, there should be a reason for, say, a criminal to turn themselves in.Part of Justice is it being a fair and right punishment. Part of Punishment is the acceptance of guilt and acknowledgement of wrongness. Jail isn't just about keeping the bad people securely away from society, but it's about forcing someone to reflect on the magnitude of their crime, and paying back society for their crime. "Paying the price". So any god who's about Justice can very well stand for the process that happens after the judge hands down the sentence.   (Additionally, a god of Justice is likely also the god of the Unjustly Accused. An innocent man being punished for a crime he didn't do would be best served praying to a god of Justice, hoping that true justice will come, especially in payment for the price he has paid for something he didn't do. Justice is eroded and discredited when the innocent are punished along with the guilty.)</blockquote>