Ethics Paper 2 Theme E - Crime and Punishment Flashcards
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
What are the Aims of Punishment?
Crime and Punishment
The reasons why certain punishments are given eg. retribution,deterrence, reofrmation
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
What are Causes of Crime?
Crime and Punishment
The reasons why people break the law eg. addiction, greed,poverty,upbringing,mental illness, opposition to unjust laws.
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
What is Community Service?
Crime and Punishment
Punishment involving the criminal doing a set number of hours of physical labour/ work in their community.
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
What is Crime?
Crime and Punishment
Action which breaks the law; can be against the person (eg. murder) against property (eg. vandalism), or against the state (eg. treason)
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
What is Corporal Punishment?
Crime and Punishment
Punishment in which physical pain is inflicted on the criminal
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
What is the Death Penalty?
Crime and Punishment
Capital Punishment; the execution of a criminal which is sanctioned by bthe state eg. hanging, the electric chair, firing squad
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
What is Deterrence?
Crime and Punishment
Aim of punishment; the threat of punishment as a way to put a person off committing crime (eg. knowing they could go to prison if they steal)
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
Who is Elizabeth Fry?
Crime and Punishment
A Quaker prison reformer
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
What are Evil Intentions?
Crime and Punishment
Having the desire to deliberately cause suffering or harm to another
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
What is Forgiveness?
Crime and Punishment
Pardoning/letting go of blame against a person for wrongs they have done; moving on
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
What are Hate Crimes?
Crime and Punishment
A crime committed because of predjudice views about a person or group
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
What is Justice?
Crime and Punishment
Fairness in society and the world.
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
What is Law?
Crime and Punishment
The rules a country demadns its citizens follow, the breaking of which leads to punishment
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
What is Murder?
Crime and Punishment
Unlawfully killing another person
Ethics - Paper 2 Theme E
What is the Principle of Utility?
Crime and Punishment
The concept of acting out of the greater good for the most number of people (eg. removing a dangerous person from society in order to protect others)
