AQA GCSE RELIGIOUS STUDIES UNIT 03: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
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- Types of Crime
- Crime against the person: e.g violence, assault, murder
- Crime and Punishment
- Religious Offence: this is where you break a religious rule, e.g blasphemy
- Aims of punishment
- Protection: where the public is protected from the criminal because of their punishment e.g prison
- Retribution: where the victim can 'get their own back' e.g capital punishment - this can be seen as 'an eye for an eye'
- Deterrence: where the punishment puts them from committing crime e.g public humiliation
- Reparation: where the offender gets to pay back for what they've done. For example, community service
- Reformation: where the punishment reforms the criminal and makes them into a better person.
- Vindication: The law needs to be respected - where the punishment fits the crime
- Prisons
- People believe prisons are a good idea as they keep the public safe.
- Some people believe prisons should be harsh places where you repay for your actions (e.g karma)
- Buddhists believe in metta (loving kindness) and Christians believe in 'love thy neighbour' which suggests prisons shouldn't be too harsh
- Elizabeth Fry was a Christian wanted to make prisons better places by reforming them
- Some people say prisons are 'schools of crime' and make people worse
- Parole: early release for good behaviour
- Young Offenders
- The age of criminal responsibility is 10 years old in the UK
- Young offenders: criminals under the age of 21
- In Judaism, the age for criminal responsibility is 12 for a girl and 13 for a boy.
- When under the age of 15 young offenders go to a secure training facility whereas those between 15-21 go to a Young Offenders Institution.
- These are places of rehabilitation and education, which religious believers like as they feel they build good karma
- The age of criminal responsibility is 10 years old in the UK
- Other forms of punishment
- ASBO: anti-social behavioural orders (stopping people from getting into areas and causing problems)
- Electronic tagging: a tag on your ankle which tells the police if you aren't at home on time
- Fines: charging someone for breaking some laws
- Capital Punishment: the death sentence
- Capital punishment is when the criminal is killed by the authorities for their crime.
- It still exists in 71 countries including USA, Japan, Iran and China
- The UK has abolished the death penalty
- Arguments For
- It protects us from the criminal so they can no longer hurt us
- It is a deterrence and puts a criminal off crime
- It allows retribution as the victims family can get their own back
- Christians and Muslims both use 'an eye for an eye'
- Islam allows the death penalty for murder, conversion to another religion or homosexuality
- Arguments Against
- The person might be found innocent later on
- Two wrongs do not make a right
- Capital punishment doesn't reduce crime in the USA
- It is inhumane and can never be 100% painless
- 'Love thy neighbour'
- Jesus forgave his executioners
- Crime against property: where you steal/destroy someones property (e.g vandalism)
- Crime against the state: e.g terrorism or not paying tax, where you hurt the government
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