Crime & Punishment

Crime & Punishment

1. Aims of Punishment

   • Retribution-Revenge
     • 'If anyone injures his neighbour,whatever he has done must be done to him; fracture for a fracture,eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. As he injured the other he too must be injured'
   • Reformation-Changing Behaviour
     • Christians-possibility of redemption with the grace of God
   • Deterence-Warning to others
     • 'He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer'
   • Protection-Imprisonment
     • 'Love your neighbour as yourself'

2. Punishments and its Impacts

   • Imprisonment
   • Fines
   • Proboation
   • Community Service
   • Impacts on Society
     • Great cost-Taxpayers-Prisons
     • Crimes dealt with within the community

3. Death Penalty

   • Arguments For the Death Penalty
     • Old Testament-Revenge fair and equal
     • Some people not sorry for their crimes-reoffend
     • Capital Punishment-Deterent
     • Some prefer to die than live in prison
     • Cheaper than imprisonment
     • Life sentence-not life
     • Only effective punishment for murder
   • Arguments Against Death Penalty
     • 'Love your neighbour as yourself'- Revenge is not love
     • No chance to repent
     • Two wrongs do not make a right
     • Criminals can be martyrs