Crime And Punishment

Question 1

What are the three aims of punishment

Answer 1

Reformation, retribution, deterrence

Question 2

What do Christian’s believe about the aims of punishment

Answer 2

Believe that Reformation is the best way out of all the aims
Although it should not be replaced with punishment

Question 3

Why are Buddhists against theft crimes?

Answer 3

Theft breaks the second moral precept and strengthens the habit of greed - one of the three poisons

Question 4

Christian views about why murder is wrong?

Answer 4

Only God has the right to take life / is against the Ten Commandments

Question 5

Name the 6 reasons for crime?

Answer 5

Poverty
Upbringing
Mental illness
Addiction
Greed
Hatred

Question 6

Christian views about suffering

Answer 6

May strengthen a characters faith as Jesus suffered

Question 7

Buddhists believes about suffering

Answer 7

Main goal is to overcome it

Important to accept that suffering is an inevitable part of life

Question 8

Non religious views on the death penalty

Answer 8

There is a chance that you are hilling a completely innocent person
There is very little evidence that it acts as a good deterrent

Question 9

Buddhists views about the death penalty

Answer 9

Breaks the first moral precept
Makes revenge part of the criminal justice system
Capital punishment still exists in Thailand

Question 10

What is the difference in corporal and capital

Answer 10

Corporal punishment is causing someone physical pain and capital punishment is death

Question 11

What are the 3 treatments of criminals

Answer 11

Prison
Corporal
Community service