Transitional justice lacks a coherent framework for articulating the relationship between distributive and corrective justice. Academic debates remain largely normative, focused on whether and how transitional justice should distinguish itself from the realm of the social, economic, and cultural. Where there is a bridge between legal logics and lived realities, it generally happens through victims’ consultation, but these are often thinly designed processes, revolving around questions like “what do victims want” or failing to turn expectations into action. Taking inspiration from Sally Engle Merry’s “paradox of measurement,” in which measurements produce the realities they assess, we pose a “paradox of justice” in which victims’ lived experiences are filtered and reproduced through the technology of consultation. While important, the question of “what do victims want” ultimately oversimplifies the complexities of how injustice is experienced. Drawing on a unique dataset of everyday indicators of justice from Colombia, this article establishes a framework for articulating the experiential dimensions of post-conflict justice. Ultimately, this framework highlights that justice is a process—whether in the courtroom or in a village reckoning with a massacre—and that the kinds of relationships that justice institutions build with victims are of equal relevance to what these institutions ultimately deliver.

转型正义缺乏一个连贯的框架来阐明分配正义和矫正正义之间的关系。学术辩论在很大程度上仍然是规范性的，重点是过渡正义是否以及如何将其自身与社会、经济和文化领域区分开来。在法律逻辑和现实之间存在桥梁的情况下，通常是通过受害者的咨询来实现的，但这些过程往往设计得很薄弱，围绕着“受害者想要什么”等问题或未能将期望转化为行动。受到莎莉·恩格尔·梅里（Sally Engle Merry）的“测量悖论”（测量产生其评估的现实）的启发，我们提出了“正义悖论”，其中受害者的生活经历通过咨询技术被过滤和再现。“受害者想要什么”这个问题虽然很重要，但最终过于简单化了不公正经历的复杂性。本文利用哥伦比亚日常司法指标的独特数据集，建立了一个框架来阐明冲突后司法的经验维度。最终，这个框架强调正义是一个过程——无论是在法庭上还是在村庄里处理大屠杀——司法机构与受害者建立的关系与这些机构最终提供的服务具有同等的相关性。