Crime And Punishment Flashcards

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two reasons why crime punishment exists

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  • to suppress the people so government have control

- to protect our human rights

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what are the three main types of crime

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  • crimes against the person
  • crime against the property
  • crime against the state
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what are some causes of crime (6)

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  • mental illness
  • poverty
  • upbringing
  • addiction
  • greed
  • hate
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what are the three aims of punishment

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  • retribution
  • reformation
  • deterrence
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what is retribution + neg and pos impacts

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  • it is to get your own back. ‘an eye for an eye’.
  • pos is that is it simple and east to understand
  • neg is that solving killing with more killing is like solving hate with more hate
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what is reformation + neg and pos impacts

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  • it is to change someones behaviour for the better.
  • pos is that its a peaceful method, doesnt involve more pain.
  • neg is that offenders get treated with more care than they deserve
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what is a deterrence + neg and pos impacts

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  • it is to put people off of committing crimes.
  • pos is that it prevents crimes by innocent before they happen.
  • neg is that it humiliates people and doesnt work well now
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Christian attitudes towards different types of punishment

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they dislike punishment that requires pain inflicted on offender and prefer methods of reformation

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what are Christian beliefs towards criminals

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  • Christians believe we should cater for them. (parable of the sheep) ‘for i was in prison and you came to visit me’
  • Christians believe we should treat them the way we treat everyone. ‘love thy neighbour’ (life has intrinsic value)
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what is the parable of the sheep

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the left sheep help all people and go to Heaven whereas the right sheep that dont are punished and go to Hell

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religious beliefs about getting the law broken to get a bad law changed (scripture and case study)

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  • Christians against because authority has been given by God. ‘give to ceasars what is caesars’ - Jesus
  • People can be for it if laws hold may people down. rosa parks breaking the law by not moving to the back of the bus, sparked civil rights movement
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what is corporal punishment

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physical punishment like caning

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non-religious arguments for corporal punishment

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  • acts as a deterrent (Saudi Arabia crime rate is low)
  • its a simple punishment (retribution) less time wasted in court
  • psychological impacts, suffering. feared more than prison
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non-religious arguments against corporal punishment

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  • inhumane and barbaric, human rights
  • hardens criminals, becomes less and less effective
  • purposefully inflicting pain is morally wrong
  • doesnt change them, only leaves temporary physical scars
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religious argument for corporal punishment

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‘he who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly’

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16
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religious argument against corporal punishment

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  • goes against the sanctity of life argument by belittling and humiliating people
  • ‘whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed’
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non-religious arguments for captial punishment

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  • very effective deterrent and retribution
  • destroys risk of more lives being lost by the murderer
  • makes people talk and confess if threatened
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non-religious arguments against captial punishment

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  • makes the executioner a murderer
  • irreversible mistakes
  • prison is a tougher lesson taught than death
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religious arguments for captial punishment

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  • ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’ ‘what you sow you shall reap’.
  • if the offender kills, it is appropriate if they get killed
20
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religious arguments against capital punishment

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  • all life has intrinsic value ‘sanctity of life’.

- humans cant take the lives of others because we dont have the power over each others life