Justice Flashcards
Sin
An act against the will of God
Aquinus used to justify capital punishment
Certain contexts change a bad act (killing) into a good act (killing to repair the violation of justice done by the person killed, and killing a person who has forfeited their natural worthiness by killing)
Crime
An act against the law
Law
Rules made by parliament and enforceable by the courts
Justice
Due allocation of reward and punishment, the maintenance of what is right
Deterrence
The idea that punishments should be of such a nature that they will put people off committing crimes
Retribution
The idea that punishments should make criminals pay for what they have done wrong
Reform
The idea that punishments should try to change criminals so that they will not commit crimes again
Judgement
The act of judging people and their actions
UK law on capital punishment
It was abolished in the UK in 1973, except in cases of treason
Abolished completely in 1998
Human rights on capital punishment
Under the European convention on human rights (1999) it was abolished throughout the European Union
In how many countries was capital punishment used in 2010
67
Apostasy
When a Muslim rejects their religion and actively works against it
Haram
Something that is totally forbidden in Islam
Catechism drugs
The use of drugs inflicts a very grave damage on human health and life. Their use, except on strictly therapeutic grounds, is a grave offence
Thomas Hobbes described life without laws in Leviathan
‘No arts, no letters, no society; and what is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”