Crime And Punishment

Question 1

What is a crime?

Answer 1

An offence that is punishable by law

Question 2

What is a sin?

Answer 2

A religious offence

Question 3

What is a punishment?

Answer 3

Something done to a person because they have broken the law

Question 4

What is retribution?

Answer 4

punishment that seeks revenge

Question 5

What is vindication?

Answer 5

offenders must be punished to show that the law is right and should be respected

Question 6

What is reformation?

Answer 6

to change a criminals behaviour for the better

Question 7

What is deterrence?

Answer 7

to put people off committing crimes

Question 8

What is reparation?

Answer 8

to repay the debt to society, e.g. community service

Question 9

What is protection?

Answer 9

keeping the public safe from being harmed, threatened or injured by criminals

Question 10

What are young offenders?

Answer 10

someone under th age of 18 who has broken the law

Question 11

What is imprisonment?

Answer 11

when a person is put into prison for comitting a crime

Question 12

What is forgiveness?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What is repentance?

Answer 13

being truly sorry and trying to change one’s behaviour so as not to do it again

Question 14

What is capital punishment?

Answer 14

the death penalty

Question 15

What us community service?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

What is electric tagging?

Answer 16

an offender has to wear an electronic device which tracks their movements to ensure restrictions of movement are made

Question 17

What are fines?

Answer 17

money payment as punishment for a crime or other offence

Question 18

What is probation?

Answer 18

an alternative to prison where an offender has to meet regularly with a probation officer to ensure they do not re-offend. Movement may be restircted

Question 19

What is parole?

Answer 19

when a prisoner is released without having completed their sentence, because they have behaved well and accepted their guilt. The prisoner is put on parole

Question 20

What is life imprisonment?

Answer 20

a prison sentence that keeps a person in jail until the day they die

Question 21

What is early release?

Answer 21

a prisoner is released from prison even though they have not served their full sentence, or fulfilled the criteria of getting parole

Question 22

What is the Shari’ah Law?

Answer 22

Islamic Laws that are derived from the Qur’an

Question 23

What is a prison reform movement?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Why would someone commit a crime?

Answer 24

Social reasons
Environmental reasons
Psychological reasons

Question 25

Why would a young person turn to crime?

Answer 25

Lack of education and qualifications
nothing constructive to do
no money
little parental guidance
broken/abusive/violent homes

Question 26

What are the 3 types of crime?

Answer 26

crime against the person
crime against property
crime against the state

Question 27

What is an example of crime against a property?

Answer 27

theft

Question 28

What is an example of crime against the state?

Answer 28

terrorist attacks

Question 29

What % of offenders are under 21?

Answer 29

40

Question 30

What % of offenders are male and under 21?

Answer 30

80

Question 31

what are the 6 main effects of crime?

Answer 31

loss of money/possessions
fear
physical hurt
mental suffering
social damage
increased insurance costs

Question 32

what actual reasons are there for someone to commit a crime?

Answer 32

gang
peer pressure
poor background
unemployment
boredom
greed
lack of education
drugs

Question 33

What are the 6 aims of punishment?

Answer 33

retribution
vindication
deterrence
protection
reparation
reformation

Question 34

what does the bible teach us about the law?

Answer 34

we should uphold it because they are for the good of all

Question 35

what should punishment aim to do?

Answer 35

forgive and reform

Question 36

what does the parable of the unforgiving servant teach us?

Answer 36

that God will forgive us if we forgive others

Question 37

Whats the one form of punishment, Christians do not believe in?

Answer 37

retribution

Question 38

for Muslims who is the only person that can forgive?

Answer 38

Allah

Question 39

If Allah is the only one who can forgive, what does this mean for punishments?

Answer 39

they cannot make good something that they have done wrong

Question 40

For Muslims what should punishments aim to do?

Answer 40

deter others

Question 41

What are magistrates?

Answer 41

volunteers that serve on a rota to hear cases in their local court.

Question 42

What are the 7 types of punishments?

Answer 42

parole
community service
electric tagging
probation
care orders
cautioning 
imprisonment

Question 43

what does Islam teach us about crimes?

Answer 43

they are seen as being against God and against society

Question 44

What are some arguments for the death penalty?

Answer 44

"an eye for an eye"
deterrence
vindication
stops the repeat of the offence from the criminal
waste of money keeping them in prison

Question 45

What are some arguments against the death penalty?

Answer 45

Jesus preached forgiveness
we should learn from Jesus’s example of capital punishment
no deterrent
no forgiveness or reform
mistakes
No-one can take life apart from God
Society as bad at the criminal (hypercritical)

Question 46

Do Christians believe with the death penalty?

Answer 46

No

Question 47

However…

Answer 47

Moses said “an eye for an eye” which counteracts what Jesus said “turn the other cheek”

Question 48

What two crimes for Islam results in the death penalty?

Answer 48

Murder and slandering Muhammed