Unit 3 Crime And Punishment Flashcards
Duty?
A moral or legal obligation
Responsibility?
A duty to care for or having control over someone or something
Conscience ?
The inner feeling you are doing right or wrong
Crime against person
Wrong doing that directly Harms a person eg murder
Crime against property
Damaging items that belong to somebody else eg vandalism
Crime against the state
An offence aimed at damaging the government or country eg treason
Punishment?
Something done to a person because they have broken a law
Protection
Keeping the public from being harmed
Retribution?
To get your own back
Deterrence?
To put people off committing crimes
Reform?
To change someone’s behaviour for the better
Vindication?
Must be punishment to show that the law must be respected and is right
Reparation?
Helps put an offended back into society
Forgiveness?
Showing grace and mercy and pardoning someone for what they have done wrong
Repentance?
Being sorry and trying to change ones behaviour
Young offended?
A person under 18 who’s broken the law
Imprisionment?
When a person is put in jail for committing a crime
Prison reform?
A movement that tries to ensure offenders are treated humanely in prison
Death penalty?
Capital punishment - put to death for crimes committed
Community service?
Unpaid work that benefits local community
Electronic tagging?
An offended has to where an electronic device which tracks movement
Fine?
Money paid as punishment for crime
Probation?
An alternative to prison where an offended had to meet regularly with probation officer
Parole?
Where a prisoner is released without completing their sentence
Early release?
A prisoner is allowed out of prison even if they haven’t completed their sentence
Christianity and crime
They have a duty to challenge unfair laws
But believe in “give back to caesar what is caesar” meaning vindication
Christianity and punishment
Believe in forgiveness, reformation (main one) and repentance
Taught forgiveness is a virtue (not forgetting though)
Buddhism on crime and punishment
Believe in karma so all actions have consequences. If you commit crimes you will suffer in this life or the next but wish to pretect society and don’t want retribution as want no harm. Reform. Five moral precepts.
Islam on crime and punishment
Death penalties for adultery (detterence and retribution)
Social reasons for crime
- when society has nothing to offer (dropped out of school crime is only for money)
- materialist society judges on what you have
- upbringing (bad parents = bad children)
- drugs and gambling
- boredom
Environmental reasons for crime
- Unemployment
- gang culture and peer pressure
- inadequate housing and overcrowding
Psychological reasons for crime
- have mental problems or disorders
- human nature is selfish and greedy - want wealth at any cost
- TV and media - copying what they’ve seen in TV
Religious offence?
An offence against a religion like blasphemy
Civil law?
A civil case between private individuals
Criminal law?
Laws against state or country broken - jury decide if defendant is guilty eg murder which is a indictable offence
Hindus on crime and punishment
Believe in karma and use detterrent and reparation in karma as well as retribution in it but it’s up to God not them “an eye for an Eye makes the whole world blind”
Advantages of prison
Protects public
Retribution on criminals
Detterrent
Vindication
Disadvantages of prison
It’s expensive
Prisoners learn new criminal skills
Over crowding
Hard to get jobs
Crime?
An offence punishable by law eg theft
