Crime & Punishment Key Words Flashcards
What is the definition of capital punishment?
Death penalty; state sanctioned execution for a capital offence; not legal in UK.
What is a community service order?
UK punishment involving the criminal doing a set number of hours doing physical labour.
Define the term conscience.
Sense of right and wrong; guilty voice in our head; seen as the voice of God by many religious believers.
What is a corporal punishment?
Punishment in which physical pain is inflicted on the criminal; not legal in the UK.
Define the term crime.
Action which breaks the law; can be against the person (eg murder), against property (eg vandalism), or against the state (eg treason).
What is a deterrence?
Aim of punishment to put a person off committing a crime by the level of punishment.
Define the term duty.
What we have a responsibility to do.
Define the term evil.
Something or someone considered morally very wrong or wicked; often linked to the idea of a devil or other malevolent being.
What is forgiveness?
Letting go of blame against a person for wrongs they have done; moving on.
What is greed?
Reason for committing crime – wanting or desiring something or more of something.
What is hate crime?
A crime committed because of prejudice, eg assaulting a person because they are gay or Asian.
What is imprisonment?
Locking someone up and taking away of civil liberties of a criminal.
What is the definition of law?
The rules a country demands its citizens follow, the breaking of which leads to punishment.
What is murder?
Unlawfully killing another person.
Define the term order.
The enforcement of rules, eg by a police force.
