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| Question | Answer |
| Crime | An offence that is punishable by law, e.g. stealing. |
| Duty | A moral or legal obligation. |
| Responsibility | A duty to care for or having control over something or someone. |
| Conscience | The inner feeling you are doing right or wrong. |
| Crime against the person | Wrongdoing that directly harms a person, e.g. murder,assault. |
| Crime against property | Damaging items that belong to somebody else, e.g. vandalism. |
| Crime against the state | An offence aimed at damaging the government or a country, e.g. treason. |
| Religious offence | An offence against religion, e.g. blasphemy, sacrilege. |
| Punishment | Something done to a person because they have broken a law. |
| Preotection | Keeping the public from being harmed, threatened or injured by criminals. |
| Retribution | An aim of punishment - to get your own back : 'an eye for an eye'/ |
| Deterrence | An aim of punishment - to put people off committing crimes. |
| Reform | An aim of punishment - to change someone's behavior for the better. |
| Vindication | An aim of punishment that means offenders must be punished to show that the law must be respected and is right. |
| Reparation | An aim of punishment to help an offender to put something back into society. |
| Forgiveness | Showing grace and mercy and pardoning someone for what they have done wrong. |
| Repentance | Being truly sorry and trying to change one's behavior so as not to do the same again. |
| Young offender | A person under 18 who has broken the law. |
| Imprisonment | When a person is put in jail for committing a crime. |
| Prison reform | A movement that tries to ensure offenders are treated humanely in prison. |
| Death penalty | Capital punishment; form of punishment in which prisoner is put to death for crimes committed. |
| Community service | Unpaid work that an offender performs for the benefit of the local community rather than going to prison. |
| Electronic tagging | An offender has to wear an electronic device which tracks their movement to ensure restrictions of movement are observed. |
| Fine | Money paid as punishment for a crime or other offence. |
| Probation | An alternative 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. |
| Parole | When a prisoner is released without having completed their sentence, because they have behaved well and accepted their guilt. The prisoner is monitored to try to ensure that they do not re-offend. |
| Life imprisonment | A prison sentence that (theoretically) keeps people in prison until they die. |
| Early release | When a prisoner is allowed out of prison even though they have not completed their sentence, or fulfilled the criteria for getting parole. |
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