Crime and Punishment Key Terms

A set of flash cards with key terms for the crime and punishment topic for AQA Religious studies.

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Crime
An offence that is punishable by law, e.g. stealing.
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Duty
A moral or legal obligation.
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Responsibility
a duty to care for or having control over something or someone.
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Conscience
The inner feeling you ared doing right or wrong.
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Crime against the person
Wrongdoing that directly harms a person, e.g. murder, assualt, etc.
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Crime against property
Damaging items that belong to somebody else, e.g. vandalism
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Crime against the state
An ffence aimes at damaging the government or a country, e.g. treason
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Religious offence
An offence against religion, e.g. blasphemy
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Punishment
Something done to a person because they have broken the law.
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Protection
Keeping the public from being harmed, threatend or injured by criminals.
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Retribution
An aim of punishment - to get your own back, 'an eye for an eye'.
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Deterrence
An aim of punishment - to put people off committing crimes.
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Reform
An aim of punishment - to change someone's behaviour for the better.
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Vindication
An aim of punishment that means offenders must be punished to show that the law must be respected and is right.
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Reparation
An aim of punishment designed to help an offender to put something back into society.
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Young offender
A person under 18 who has broken the law.
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Imprisonment
When a person is put in jail for committinf a crime.
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Prison reform
A movement that tries to ensure offenders are treated humanely in prison.
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Death penalty
Capital punishment; form of punishment in which a prisoner is put to death for crimes committed.
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Community service
Unpaid work that an offender performs for the benefit of the local community rather than going to prison.
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Electronic tagging
An offender has to wear an electronic device which tracks their movement to ensure restrictions of movement are observed.
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Fine
Money paid as punishment for a crime or other offence.
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Probation
An alternative to prison where an offender has to meet regularly with a probation officer to ensure they do not re-offend. Movement may be restricted.
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Parole
When a prisoner is released without having completed their sentence, because they have behaved well and accepted tehir guilt. The prisoner is monitored to try to ensure that they do not re-offend.
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Life imprisonment
A prison sentence that [theoretically] keeps people in prison until they die.
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Early release
when a prisoner is allowed out of prison even though they have not completed their sentence, or fulfilled the criteria for getting parole.
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Card 2

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A moral or legal obligation.

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Duty

Card 3

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a duty to care for or having control over something or someone.

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Card 4

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The inner feeling you ared doing right or wrong.

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Card 5

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Wrongdoing that directly harms a person, e.g. murder, assualt, etc.

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