Crime and punishment Flashcards
(26 cards)
4 markers, contrasting beliefs
Death penalty
- Jesus taught forgiveness, death penalty is inhumane does not allow 2nd chance
- Society and victims family needs justice and protection
corporal punishment
- Justice- ‘whoever spares the rod hates his son’
- ‘love thy nieghbour’, inhumane and does not help
forgiveness
- Jesus taught to give second chances
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Reasons for crimes
Poverty
- sympathetic as my need to steal to provide for family
- ‘Do not steal’ goes against God
Upbringing
- sympathetic as they don’t know between right or wrong
- no excuse goes against God to commit crimes
Mental illness
- deserve help ‘do good to those who help you’
- no excuse there job to get help
Addiction
- deserve help don’t judge
- should have gotten help
Greed
- sinful
- don’t judge but pray
Hate
- ‘all one in christ’, wrong to hurt others
- some may be invovled e.g. crimes against gay people
Opposition to unjust law
- not to be opposed as God insinuated authority those authorities that exist have been instituted by God’
- duty to serve God is a law unjust need to help
views on criminals
- all humans and Jesus taught to not judge and forgive
- free will, should be punished ‘man reaps what he shows’
Types of crimes
Hate crime
- ‘all one in christ’
- some believe is is okay eg abortion
Theft
- ‘do not steal’
- don’t judge some live in poverty
murder
- ‘do not murder’
- allow second chance
aims of punishment
- retribution
- Deterrence
- reformation
Types of punishment
- prison
- community service
5 markers
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corporal punishment
- ‘whoever spares the rod hates his son’
- inhumane
Death penalty
- inhame, everyone deserves second chance, sanity of life
- Principle of utility
Forgiveness
- Jesus taught forgiveness through adulterous women
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Reasons for crime
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