Unit 4
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- Religious attitudes to crime and punishment
- Types of offence
- Religious offences (sins)
- May also be crimes e.g. adultery in islamic countries
- May not be crime e.g. adultery in the UK
- Crimes (offences against a countries law)
- Against property
- e.g. theft
- Against the state
- e.g. selling state secrets
- Against the person
- E.g. murder
- e.g. terrorism
- e.g. selling state secrets
- Against property
- Religious offences (sins)
- Causes of crime
- Poverty
- Alcohol and drugs
- Peer pressure
- Protest
- Emotional state
- Upbringing
- Boredom
- Forms of punishment
- Imprisonment
- Probation
- Community service
- Fines
- Electronic tagging and curfews
- ASBOs
- Aims of punishment
- Deterrence
- Putting people off committing it
- Reformation
- Changing an offender's attitude
- Reparation
- Compensating in some way for the crime commited
- Protection
- Stability within society
- Retribution
- 'An eye for an eye', proportionate punishment to the crime
- Vindication
- Teaching the offender and society that the law must be respected
- Deterrence
- Buddhism
- The law
- Enables practice of dhamma (the truth taught by Buddah)
- To keep the law with right intention
- Engaged buddhism- might entail civil disobedience/non violent resistance to authorities- selfless motive
- Punishment
- Improve karma
- Protection of society- first precept
- Act as deterrant but is vengeful
- Retribution is against buddhism
- Death penalty
- Against metta and karuna
- Only for serious offences
- No chance of reform
- Against metta and karuna
- The law
- Christianity
- The law
- Humans have inbuilt sense of moral sense
- Original sins lead to crimentitled
- Rulers given authority by God
- Laws to be obeyed unless against God's law
- Resistance to the law where wrong
- Punishment of offenders
- Jesus always gave a second chance
- Unconditional forgiveness
- Offenders need to know what they have done
- Retribution can become revenge
- Protecting society is important
- Many work with offenders and ex-offenders
- The law
- Types of offence
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