Key Terms Flashcards
Capital punishment
Death penalty. Government sanctioned punishment where a person is put to death by the state.
Community service order
Punishment of a crime. Criminal carries out between 40 and 300 hours of unpaid work, depending on severity of crime.
Conscience
Person’s moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one’s behaviour.
Corporal punishment
Punishment that encompasses all types of physical punishment. E.g. unpleasant substances, slapping, pinching, flogging.
Crime
Criminal act. Action prohibited by law and individual’s failure to act as required by law.
Deterrence
Threat of punishment will deter people from committing suture crimes.
Duty
Moral or legal obligation to uphold the law, a responsibility.
Evil
Manifestation of profound immorality and wickedness, especially in people’s actions
Forgiveness
Conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment. Not forgetting or condoning offences.
Hate crime
Maintained by prejudice on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation or other grounds.
Imprisonment
Specific state of being physically incarnated or confined in an institutional setting such a prison.
Justice
Concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality and law. Can refer to a person duly commissioned to hold court sessions.
Law
System of rules which a particular country/community recognises as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
Order
State in which the laws and rules regulating public behaviour are observed and authority is obeyed.
Parole
Temporary/permanent release of a prisoner before the expiry of a sentence on the promise of good behaviour.
