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26 Cards in this Set
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Crime
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An offence that is punishable by law, e.g. stealing.
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Duty
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A moral or legal obligation
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Responsability
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A duty to care for or having control over something or someone.
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Conscience
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The inner feeling you are doing right or wrong.
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Crime against the person
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Wrongdoing that directly harms a person, e.g. murder, assult.
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Crime against property
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Damaging items that belong to somebody else, e.g. vandalism.
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Crime against the state
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An offence aimed at damaging the goverment or a country, e.g. treason.
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Religious offence
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An offence against religion, e.g. blasphemy.
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Punishment
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Something done to a person because they have broken the law.
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Protection
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Keeping the pubic from being harmed, threatened or injured by criminals.
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Retribution
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An aim of punishment- to get your own back: 'an eye for an eye'.
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Deterrence
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An aim of punishment - to put people off committing crimes.
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Reform
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An aim of punishment - to change someone's behavior for the better.
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Vindication
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An aim of punishment that means that means offenders must be punished to show that the law must be respected and is right.
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Reparation
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An aim of ppunishment designed to help an offender to put something back into society.
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Young Offender
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A person under 18 who has broken the law
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Imprisonment
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When a person is put in jail for committing a crime.
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Prison reform
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A movement that tries to ensure offenders are treated humanely in prison.
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Death penalty
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Capital punishment; form of punishment in which a prisoner is put to death for crimes committed.
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Communtiy service
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Unpaid work that an offender performs for the benefit of the local community rather than going to prison.
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Electronic tagging
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An offender has to wear an electronic device which tracks their movement to ensure restrictions of movement are observed.
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Fine
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Money paid as punishment for a crime or other offence.
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Probation
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Analternative to prison where an offender has to meet regularly with a probation officer to ensure that they do not re-offend. Movement may be restricted.
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Parole
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When a prisioner is released without having completed sentence, because they have behaved well and accepted their guilt. The prisioner is monitoredto try to ensure that they do not re-offend.
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Life Imprisonment
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A prison sentence that (theoretically) keeps people in prison until they die.
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Early release
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When a prisoner is allowed out of prison even though they have not completed their sentence, or fufilled the criteria for getting parole.
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