Crime And Punishment Flashcards
(21 cards)
Why is there so much crime?
Homelessness
Unemployment
Revenge
Drugs
Name three types of crime
Theft
Murder
Pedophilia
Define duty
A moral or legal obligation
Define responsibility
a duty to care for or having control over something or someone
Conscience
The inner feeling you are doing right or wrong
Define ASBO
Anti-social behaviour order. A punishment that sets out criteria and rules that a person must follow.
Define young offender
A person under 18 who had broken the law
Define parole
When a prisoner is released without having completed their sentence, because they have behaved well and accepted their guilt. The prisoner is monitored to try to ensure hat they do not re-offend.
Define life imprisonment
A prison sentence that theoretically keeps people in prison until they die
Define 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
Repentance?
Being sorry for what you have done and trying to make up for it
Define crime
An offence that is punishable by law, e.g. Stealing
Define punishment
Something done to a person because they have broken the law
Retribution
Keeping the public from being harmed, threatened or injured by criminals.
Define retribution
An aim of punishment- to get your own back: an eye for an eye
Define deterrence
An aim of punishment- to put peopel off committing crimes.
Define reform
An aim of punishment - to change someone’s behaviour for the better
Define vindication
An aim of punishment that means offenders must be punished to show that the law must be respected and is right
Define reparation
An aim of punishment designed to help an offender to put something back into society
Define forgiveness
Showing grace and mercy and pardoning someone for what they have done wrong.
Prison reform
A movement that tries to ensure offenders are treated humanely in prison
