Crime

Question 1

What is crime?

Answer 1

An offence that is punishable by law, e.g stealing

Question 2

what is a moral or legal obligation?

Answer 2

duty

Question 3

What is responsibility?

Answer 3

A duty to care for or having control over something or someone

Question 4

What is a conscience?

Answer 4

The inner feeling you are doing right or wrong

Question 5

What is a wrong doing that directly harms someone?

Answer 5

Crime against the person

Question 6

What is crime against property?

Answer 6

Damaging items that belong to somebody else, e.g. vandalism

Question 7

What is crime against the state?

Answer 7

An offence aimed at damaging the government or a country, e.g. treason

Question 8

what is an offence against religion?

Answer 8

Religious offence

Question 9

What is a punishment?

Answer 9

Something done to a person because they have broken a law

Question 10

What is protection?

Answer 10

Keeping the public from being harmed, threatened or injured by criminals

Question 11

What is it called to put people off of crimes?

Answer 11

Deterrence

Question 12

What is it called to get your own back?

Answer 12

Retribution

Question 13

What is reformation?

Answer 13

to change someone’s behaviour for the better

Question 14

What is vindication?

Answer 14

An aim of punishment that means offenders must be punished to show that the law must be respected and is right

Question 15

What is reparation?

Answer 15

An aim of punishment designed to help an offender to put something back into society

Question 16

What is forgiveness?

Answer 16

Showing grace and mercy and pardoning someone for what they have done wrong

Question 17

What is repentance?

Answer 17

Being truly sorry and trying to change one’s behaviour so as not to do the same again

Question 18

What is a young offender?

Answer 18

A person under 18 who has broken the law

Question 19

What is imprisonment?

Answer 19

When a person is put in jail for committing a crime

Question 20

What is prison reform?

Answer 20

A movement that tries to ensure offenders are treated humanely in prison

Question 21

What is capital punishment?

Answer 21

Death penalty

Question 22

What is community service?

Answer 22

Unpaid work that an offender performs for the benefit of the local community rather than going to prison

Question 23

What is electronic tagging?

Answer 23

An offender has to wear an electronic device which tracks their movement to ensure restrictions of movement are observed

Question 24

What is a fine?

Answer 24

Money paid as punishment for a crime or other offence

Question 25

What is probation?

Answer 25

An alternative to prison where an offender has to meet regularly with a probation officer to ensure they do not reoffend.

Question 26

What is parole?

Answer 26

When a prisoner is released without having completed their sentence, because they have behaved well and accepted their guilt.

Question 27

What is life imprisonment?

Answer 27

A prison sentence that (theoretically) keeps people in prison until they die

Question 28

What is early release?

Answer 28

when a prison is allowed to leave prison early

Question 29

“You shall not murder”

Answer 29

Evil action

Question 30

“anyone who murders will be subject to judgement”

Answer 30

Evil judgment

Question 31

“Focusing on poverty and sacrificing for the poor are the heart of the gospel. If Christians don’t dig deep and generously open up their wallets, they do not have genuine faith.”

Answer 31

Reasons for crime - poverty

Question 32

Reasons for crime quotations

Answer 32

“for there is no authority except that which God has established.”