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Religion, crime and punishment Flashcards

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Forgiveness

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Showing grace and mercy and pardoning to someone for what they have done wrong

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Community service

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Working in the community to pay back for a criminal act

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Corporal punishment

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Using physical pain as a punishment

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Crime

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An action which is against the law and incurs a punishment

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Death penalty

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A form of punishment where the offender is killed for their crime

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Deterrence

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An aim of punishment - preventing future criminals by harsh treatment of offenders

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Hate crime

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A crime motivated by hatred e.g. racism, homophobia

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Poverty

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Not having enough money to be able to live a comfortable life

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Prison

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A place where criminals are sent to withdraw their freedom as a punishment

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Punishment

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Something negative done to criminals by the state

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Reformation

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An aim of punishment - to try and reform criminals

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Retribution

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An aim of punishment - seeking a form of revenge on criminals

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Good and evil intentions - C

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Bible warns against having evil thoughts that lead to evil intentions

Avoiding sin and temptation will avoid crime

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Attitudes to law breakers - C

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Christians do not believe that people are evil but that people can be tempted to do wrong and break the law

Taught to “love the sinner, hate the sin” - meaning they should forgive and show mercy to those who have done wrong but who have admitted to their mistakes

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Reasons for crime

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Poverty - needing money or food

Upbringing - not taught the rights and the wrongs

Addiction - alcohol/drugs which cloud the brain or people might commit a crime to fuel their addiction

Greed - stealing things they desire which they cannot afford

Hatred

Opposition to unjust law - breaking the law to oppose unjust or hateful laws

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3 aims of punishment: deterrence

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Use punishment as a message to others considering committing crime

By giving one criminal a harsh punishment it may put other off committing the crime

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3 aims of punishment: reformation

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Change the criminals behaviour for the better by therapy, education or training

C: support as it is a form of “love thy neighbour”

B: story of angulimala - he was a murderer and the Buddha did not punish him but urged him to live a better life

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3 aims of punishment: retribution

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Society getting its own back on the offender

Old Testament: “eye for an eye” - so Christians would argue that this is a form of punishment according to the Bible

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Forgiveness teachings

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At the heart of Jesus’s teachings - show mercy and pardon someone for what they have done

When Jesus was crucified he said “Father forgive them, for they do not know what they do”

Forgiveness leads Christians to support reformation as a aim of punishment as it allows the criminal to ask for forgiveness and to be forgiven

Buddhists - forgiveness is important is it expressed meta and allows them to get rid of hatred (one of the 3 poisons)

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CA to prisons

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Believe prisoners should be treated well

Some campaign for better prison conditions out of mercy

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CA to corporal punishment

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Physical punishment is harmful and negative (illegal in UK)

Rather reform a criminal then punish them in this way

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community service beliefs

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C:In favour as they repay their community as a punishment
Allows criminal to make up and it does not harm them

B: approve, helps to rehabilitate the criminal

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3 poisons

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Hatred, greed and ignorance - leads to suffering

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Ahimsa

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Do no harm or non violence

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Story of angulimala

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He was a murderer but the Buddha did not punish him instead urged him to live a better life - teaches that reformation to a criminal is important

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1st moral precept

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Do not take life

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Kamma/karma

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Unskillful actions lead to suffering and my doing skilful actions you gain good karma which will lead to enlightenment which is a Buddhists main goal

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Sanctity of life

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Life is precious and God given

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10 commandments

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Guide human behaviour
Do not steal and do not murder are part of this

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‘Eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’

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Old Testament teaching about retribution

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‘Not seven times but seventy times seven time’

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Jesus’s response when asked how many times we should forgive people

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‘Love thy neigbour’

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Love everyone as you would love your closest family

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Parable of sheep of goats quote

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“I was in prison you came to visit me”

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In the New Testament Jesus preached forgiveness quote

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“Forgive them father, they don’t know what they’re doing”

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Lord prayer section on forgiveness - quote

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“Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us”

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Ten Commandment on stealing

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“Thou shall not steal”

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10 commandment on murder

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“You shall not murder”

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Genesis 9:6 quote, on punishment

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“Who kills man, shall be killed themselves”

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Dhammapadda 223 quote on overcoming hate

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Conquer the hatful man with love; conquer the bad man with goodness

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Dalai Lama quote on revenge

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We should not seek revenge on those who have committed crimes against us or reply to their crimes with other cri

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Views against death penalty

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Chance of killing innocent person

Little evidence that it is a deterrent

Imprison instead

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Views for death penalty

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Principle of utility

Justified retribution

Protects society

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Christians views of death penalty

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Sanctity of life

‘Whoever shed human blood, by humans shall thier blood be shed’

Show forgiveness instead

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Reformation definition

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Change someone’s behaviour for the better

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Buddhists views of death penalty

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Breaks 1st moral precept

Ahimsa

Cannot relive suffering of victim by making offender suffer

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Buddhist story of reformation

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The story of Angulimala

Serial killer, Buddha showed compassion and encouraged him to follow teachings

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