Theme E Content - Crime And Punishment

Question 1

What are 5 causes of crime?

Answer 1

Poverty
Upbringing
Mental health
Addiction
Greed

Question 2

What is a hate crime?

Answer 2

Any incident in which someone commits a crime against someone else based on their prejudices about that person (e.g. race, religion, disability)

Question 3

What is civil disobedience?

Answer 3

Purposefully breaking a law because you believe it to be unjust

Question 4

What is more important for Christians, God’s law or the government’s law?

Answer 4

Gods law

Question 5

What is an example of civil disobedience?

Answer 5

Rosa parks

Question 6

Who came up with the idea of divided will?

Answer 6

St Augustine

Question 7

What is the idea of divided will?

Answer 7

Humans know what is right but are often drawn towards doing what is wrong

Question 8

Who came up with the idea of the original sin?

Answer 8

St Augustine

Question 9

What is the idea of original sin?

Answer 9

Every human is born separated from God and with an inclination towards sin
- it is part of being human (if we were always able to resist evil then we would be like God not humans)

Question 10

What does the Catholic Church teach about wrongdoing?

Answer 10

They do not excuse it due to the fact of original sin and divided will
- they teach that all human beings have REASON which allows them to know what is right. Therefore we may be tempted by sin by we must act against this desire

Question 11

What is the message from the story of the woman who committed adultery?

Answer 11

You should try to see the food in everyone and the only one without sin is God so only God can judge others