THEME E- Crime and Punishment Flashcards
Aims of Punishment
RETRIBUTION:
“Life for a life, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” QURAN+BIBLE
REFORMATION:
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” BIBLE
DETERRENCE:
Shariah law is to cut of the hand of thieves. This is as a deterrence.
Types of Crime
MURDER:
“Do not take life which God has made sacred” QURAN
“You shall not murder” EXODUS
HATE:
“You are all one in Christ” BIBLE
Reasons for Crime
ADDICTION:
“Intoxicants are an abomination” QURAN
Muhammed said: “Intoxicants are the mother of all evils, Alcohol is not a medicine but a disease” HADITH
HATE:
“You are all one in Christ” BIBLE
“No Arab is superior to a non Arab” QURAN
OPPOSING LAW:
“Obey those of you in authority” QURAN
GREED:
“For the love of money is the root of all evils” BIBLE
Religious attitudes to lawbreakers
“I was in prison and you came to visit me” BIBLE
“God commands justice… and prohibits wrongdoing and injustice” QURAN
Suffering and Forgiveness
“Let them Pardon and Forgive. Do you not wish God forgave you” QURAN
“God is most merciful” QURAN
“I tell you not seven but seventy-seven time” BIBLE
The Death Penalty
AGREE-
“Eye for and eye, a life for a life” BIBLE
“Do not take life which God has made sacred, except by right” QURAN
DISAGREE-
“If you have forgiven me who have sinned against you, your heavenly father would forgive you” BIBLE
“But if the culprit is pardoned by his aggrieved brother, this shall be adhered to fairly, and the culprit shall pay what is due in a good way” QURAN
