Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

1. key terms

   • Types of crime
     • Crime against the state
     • Crime against the person
     • Crime against God
       • Crime against property

2. Why people commit crime

   • poor home
   • Poor Upbringing
   • Poverty
   • Drug Abuse
   • Peer Pressure
   • Christians believe that human nature is sinful

3. Aims of Punishment

   • Protection the criminal is separated from society in order to protect anti social behavior
   • Retribution involves taking from the criminal what he has taken from the victim
     • Reparation the criminal tries to put right what he has done wrong. this means that he provides the victim or society with fair compensation
       • Reformation to help the criminal become a better person
       • Vindication to show authority of the law is upheld to ensure that people respect the law
     • Deterrence to discourage the criminal from reoffending and to put other off who may want to commit a crime

4. QUOTES

   • Forgive 70 X7
   • Go now and leave your life of sin.
   • Forgive us as we forgive those who sin against us
   • Do not kill
   • let justice flow like a river
   • Let them rule over the birds of the air and the fish of the sea
   • man is made in the image of God
   • Love thy Neighbor
   • God is Love
   • Eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth

5. Types of Punishment

   • Probation
   • Fine
   • Suspended sentance
   • electronic tagging
   • home detention
   • Capital punishment
   • Community service
   • Corporal punishment