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Crime And Punishment Flashcards

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Why is there so much crime?

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Homelessness
Unemployment
Revenge
Drugs

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Name three types of crime

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Theft
Murder
Pedophilia

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Define duty

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A moral or legal obligation

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Define responsibility

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

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Conscience

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The inner feeling you are doing right or wrong

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Define ASBO

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Anti-social behaviour order. A punishment that sets out criteria and rules that a person must follow.

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Define young offender

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A person under 18 who had broken the law

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Define parole

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When a prisoner is released without having completed their sentence, because they have behaved well and accepted their guilt. The prisoner is monitored to try to ensure hat they do not re-offend.

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Define life imprisonment

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

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Define early release

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When a prisoner is allowed out of prison even though they have not completed their sentence, or fulfilled the criteria for getting parole

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Repentance?

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Being sorry for what you have done and trying to make up for it

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Define crime

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

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Define punishment

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Something done to a person because they have broken the law

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Retribution

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

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Define retribution

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An aim of punishment- to get your own back: an eye for an eye

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Define deterrence

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An aim of punishment- to put peopel off committing crimes.

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Define reform

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An aim of punishment - to change someone’s behaviour for the better

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Define vindication

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

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Define reparation

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

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Define forgiveness

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

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Prison reform

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

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