Religion, crime and punishment

• Capital punishment


  Death penalty
• Community service order


  UK punishment involving the criminal doing a set number of hours work in the community
• Conscience


  An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.
• Corporal punishment


  Punishment that physically hurts the body, such as slapping, spanking, etc.
• Crime


  An act against/breaking the law: can be against a person e.g. assault; against property (e.g. arson) or the state (e.g. terrorism)
• Deterrence


  Aim of punishment, to put people off committing crimes (to deter them)
• Reparation


  Aim of punishment, making up for, compensating
• Duty


  A moral or legal obligation; a responsibility
• Evil


  Something (or someone) considered morally wrong; wicked; often linked to the idea of the devil
• Forgiveness


  Stopping blaming someone and/or pardoning them for what they have done wrong
• Hate crime


  A crime motivated by prejudice, whether racial, sexual, or other prejudice, typically one involving violence.
• Imprisonment


  Putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
• Justice


  Fairness; rightfulness; equality under the law
• Law

  Rules made by parliament and enforceable by the courts, with the aim of keeping us safe
• Order


  Enforcement of rules e.g. by a police force
• Parole


  The release of a prisoner temporarily (for a special purpose) or permanently before the completion of a sentence, on the promise of good behavior.
• Probation order


  Punishment; monitoring of behaviour with the threat of greater punishment for offending again
• Protection


  Aim of punishment, to keep people safe e.g. criminals are put in prison
• Reformation


  Aim of punishment, helping the person to see how and why they should behave better
• Retribution


  Aim of punishment, getting back at the person for what they have done, revenge
• Victim


  The one against whom a crime is committed
• Vindication


  Aim of punishment, the punishment exists because the law does
• Young offenders


  Criminals under the age of 18.