Crime & Punishment
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- Crime & Punishment
- Reasons for crime
- Mental illness - can make people behave irrationally; anger management issues can lead to violence and kleptomania to stealing
- Hate - can provoke violence and aggression. Can often be caused by prejudice
- Upbringing - some may be brought up in homes of violence, poor parenting or where crime's a part of life.
- Greed - and envy can make people commit fraud or theft
- Addiction - can make people steal, drink-drive or commit violent acts
- Poverty - can lead to people stealing money or goods out of necessity
- Opposition to unjust law - if breaking a law brings about positive change it could be seen as the right thing to do.
- Aims of Punishment
- Reformation - Trying to persuade the criminal to change for the better. Can include therapy, counselling, treatment, education, or training.
- Seen as the most important aim by Christians
- 'Do not take revenge, do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.'
- Retribution - Getting revenge. The criminal should receive the same suffering that they have committed in other people.
- 'An eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, evil for evil.'
- Deterrence - The threat of punishment will put them off of committing crime again in the future.
- Reformation - Trying to persuade the criminal to change for the better. Can include therapy, counselling, treatment, education, or training.
- Attitudes to the treatment of prisoners
- Prison population summer 2017: 86,000
- Average daily spend on a prisoner's food - £1.93
- Prison sentences are given for serious crimes and there are arguments whether the focus should be to reform or just punishment
- Prison Fellowship - Christian organisation that offer practical & spiritual help to prisoners & their families.
- Prison population summer 2017: 86,000
- Corporal punishment
- Christian views
- Most would not agree with the physical discipline. Jesus' love & compassion mean people should be treated with respect and helped to reform
- Some would agree with 'He who spares the rod spoils the child' seeing that a person may be getting away with a crime they've done.
- Muslim views
- Some countries allow public caning or flogging as punishment for certain crimes. Many see this as against human rights but it is argued that it is keeping them out of prison and not ruining their lives
- 'Cut off the hands of thieves, whether they are man or woman, as punishment for what they have done - a punishment from God'
- Shariah Law - allows for a hand or fingers to be cut off for repeated theft offences
- Causing physical pain for a crime or wrong-doing
- Christian views
- Community service
- Gives the offender to make up for what they have done.
- Given for minor crimes such as vandalism, benefit fraud and minor assaults.
- Allows the offenders to stay with their families and keep their jobs, all the while giving them a lesson.
- Attitudes to forgiveness
- Muslim views
- Forgiveness from God - He will forgive those who are truly sorry - he is merciful & compassionate
- 'Paradise is for those who curb their anger and forgive their fellow men'
- 'Pardon each other's faults & God will grant you honour'
- Is not a part of punishment but is still an important element in Islam
- Forgiveness from humans - people should forgive each-other if asked and then they can ask God for the same
- Stops evil from growing
- Forgiveness from God - He will forgive those who are truly sorry - he is merciful & compassionate
- Christian views
- Forgiveness is a core belief in Christianity & is clear in Jesus' teachings.
- 'Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.'
- 'Forgive us for our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us'
- Everyone does wrong & needs to be forgiven by God & they should do this for eachother
- However, it does not mean that there should be no punishment. There must be justice and punishment is a part of it.
- Forgiveness is a core belief in Christianity & is clear in Jesus' teachings.
- Muslim views
- Death Penalty - Capital punishment
- Arguments against
- Muslim
- Capital punishment is recommended by the Qur'an, not necessarily compulsory
- Shariah law says that the family of the murder victim can accept blood money instead for compensation
- Some believe that passages that deal with the death penalty in the Qur'an have been misinterpreted
- Christian
- Christianity is based on the belief that Jesus came to save (reform) sinners
- Impossible to reform a criminal that has been executed
- Jesus banned retribution when he said an eye for an eye is wrong.
- 'Do not murder'
- Little evidence it acts as a deterrent
- Christianity is based on the belief that Jesus came to save (reform) sinners
- Muslim
- Arguments for
- Christian
- Can be seen as the best way to prevent murder and keeping order in society - deterrent.
- Old Testament teachings allow it
- 'Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed.'
- Muslim
- It is a punishment set down by God in the Qur'an.
- 'You shall not kill - for it is forbidden by God - except for a just cause'
- Muhammad made several statements agreeing with capital punishment
- Can be seen as the best way to prevent murder and keeping order in society - deterrent.
- It is a punishment set down by God in the Qur'an.
- Christian
- Illegal in the UK since 1965
- Arguments against
- Reasons for crime
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