territorial justice

The application of ideas of social justice to an area of territory; that is, the identification by a government of areas of need, followed by a deliberate policy of redressing an imbalance. This implies higher government expenditure in areas of deprivation, such as depressed areas and inner cities, than in affluent areas.

Ideas of social justice vary according to the mode of production and the prevailing ideology, so that the nature of territorial justice is not the same world-wide.