Crime and Punishment

• retribution


  a repayment; a deserved punishment
• deterrence


  the attempt to discourage criminality through the use of punishment
• reformation


  to change someone's behaviour for the better
• Exodus 21:23-25


  "... the penalty shall be life for a life, eye for an eye ..."
• "Eye for an eye"


  A quote from the Torah meaning monetary payment, not to be taken literally
• Leviticus 19:17-18


  "Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbour frankly so you do not share in his guilt!
• Ezekiel 33:11


  " ... it is not My desire that the wicked shall die, but that the wicked turn from ... evilways ..."
• free will


  The idea that human beings are free to make their own choices
• Amos 9:14-15


  "I will restore My people Israel"
• Final Solution


  Hitler's program of systematically aiming to kill the entire Jewish people
• Amos and Hosea


  Prophets who describe in detail the nature of the punishment and the suffering God was going to put upon His people for straying from His path.
• Harry Jacobi


  A survivor of the Holocaust
• prison


  A secure building where offenders are kept for a period of time set by a judge

  
• corporal punishment


  punishment of an offender by causing them physical pain - now illegal in the UK
• community service


  A way of punishing offenders by making them do unpaid work in the community

  
• Proverbs: 13:24


  "He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him."
• The stocks


  A form of punishment in the UK up until the 19th century
• Forgiveness


  Showing mercy and pardoning someone for what they have done wrong
• Repentance


  saying sorry, and a way of believers acknowledging to God that they have doen wrong
• death penalty

  Capital punishment; form of punishment in which a prisoner is put to death for crimes committed
• Exodus 21:23-24


  "... life for a life, eye for and eye, tooth for a tooth ..."
• Genesis 9:6


  "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed"
• Ezekiel 33:!11


  "As I live ... it is not My desire that the wicked shall die, but that the wicked turn from his [evil] ways and live"
• Simon Wiesenthal


  Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to prosecuting of Nazi war criminals
• crime


  an offence punishable by law
• punishment


  something legally done to somebody as a result of being found guilty of breaking the law
• evil


  The opposite of good. A force that is seen in many traditions as destructive and against God.
• poverty


  the state of being poor
• mental illness


  A medical condition that affects a person's feelings, emotions or moods, and perhaps their ability to relate to others
• addiction


  physical or mental dependency on a substance or activity which is very difficult to overcome
• greed


  an excessive desire to have or own things
• Proverbs 28:4-5


  "Those who foresake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed instruction fight them"
• hate crimes


  Crimes, often including violence that involve hate against people because of color, race, or ethnic origin.
• Auschwitz


  Nazi extermination camp in Poland, the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust, where millions of Jews were murdered.
• Ezekiel 18:20


  "The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son."
• Leviticus 19:18


  Love your neighbor as yourself