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Unit 3 Crime And Punishment Flashcards

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Duty?

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A moral or legal obligation

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Responsibility?

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A duty to care for or having control over someone or something

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Conscience ?

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The inner feeling you are doing right or wrong

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Crime against person

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Wrong doing that directly Harms a person eg murder

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Crime against property

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Damaging items that belong to somebody else eg vandalism

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Crime against the state

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An offence aimed at damaging the government or country eg treason

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Punishment?

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Something done to a person because they have broken a law

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Protection

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Keeping the public from being harmed

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Retribution?

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To get your own back

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Deterrence?

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To put people off committing crimes

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Reform?

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To change someone’s behaviour for the better

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Vindication?

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Must be punishment to show that the law must be respected and is right

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Reparation?

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Helps put an offended back into society

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Forgiveness?

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

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Repentance?

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Being sorry and trying to change ones behaviour

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Young offended?

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A person under 18 who’s broken the law

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Imprisionment?

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When a person is put in jail for committing a crime

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Prison reform?

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A movement that tries to ensure offenders are treated humanely in prison

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Death penalty?

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Capital punishment - put to death for crimes committed

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Community service?

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Unpaid work that benefits local community

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Electronic tagging?

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An offended has to where an electronic device which tracks movement

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Fine?

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Money paid as punishment for crime

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Probation?

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An alternative to prison where an offended had to meet regularly with probation officer

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Parole?

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Where a prisoner is released without completing their sentence

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Early release?

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A prisoner is allowed out of prison even if they haven’t completed their sentence

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Christianity and crime

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They have a duty to challenge unfair laws

But believe in “give back to caesar what is caesar” meaning vindication

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Christianity and punishment

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Believe in forgiveness, reformation (main one) and repentance
Taught forgiveness is a virtue (not forgetting though)

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Buddhism on crime and punishment

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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.

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Islam on crime and punishment

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Death penalties for adultery (detterence and retribution)

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Social reasons for crime

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  • 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
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Environmental reasons for crime

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  • Unemployment
  • gang culture and peer pressure
  • inadequate housing and overcrowding
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Psychological reasons for crime

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  • 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
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Religious offence?

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An offence against a religion like blasphemy

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Civil law?

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A civil case between private individuals

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Criminal law?

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Laws against state or country broken - jury decide if defendant is guilty eg murder which is a indictable offence

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Hindus on crime and punishment

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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”

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Advantages of prison

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Protects public
Retribution on criminals
Detterrent
Vindication

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Disadvantages of prison

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It’s expensive
Prisoners learn new criminal skills
Over crowding
Hard to get jobs

39
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Crime?

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An offence punishable by law eg theft

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