Justice: Crime & Punishment

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Justice: Crime & Punishment Justice: Crime & Punishment

Justice: Crime & Punishment Intermediate 4 segments

120 minutes

Key Highlights Crimes: Rules, Harms and Consequences Activity: Guilty or not?

Mitigation and Defences Appropriate punishments powered by

WHAT IS A CRIME?

Breaking the rules and hurting other people A crime is something that is against the rules and laws of our community. When someone breaks a rule or law, it can harm other people or cause problems in society. For example, if someone steals something from someone else, they are breaking the law and causing harm to the person whose property was taken. It is important for everyone to follow the rules and laws so that we can live peacefully and safely together in our community

What happens when you break the law and commit a crime? if someone commits a crime, they may face punishment, such as having to pay a fine or go to jail.

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COMMON EXAMPLES OF CRIMES Can you think of other examples of crimes?

Non-violent Crime: Theft, burglary, etc.

Theft is when someone takes something that belongs to someone else without asking permission or paying for it. This is a crime because it is not fair to the person whose property was taken.

Violent Crimes: Assault, murder, etc.

Violent crimes are offences that involve the use of force or the threat of force against someone. These types of crimes can cause serious harm or even death to the person who is the victim of the crime.

Drug Crimes: Use, possess, sale of drugs Drugs are substances that are not allowed to be used or sold because they can be harmful to people's health. Drugs are illegal as they can cause serious health problems. People who manufacture, sell and use drugs are committing a crime.

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Food for thought

Why do we punish people when they do bad things?

Think If you were punished by your parents for being rude to your teacher, what could be the purpose of that?

If a person who was caught drink-driving, was sent to jail for 2 weeks, why is that a good punishment?

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Basis of Punishments

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Food for thought

Why do we punish people when they do bad things?

Think If you were punished by your parents for being rude to your teacher, what could be the purpose of that?

If a person who was caught drink-driving, was sent to jail for 2 weeks, why is that a good punishment?

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Basis of Punishments They deserve the punishment If someone breaks a window on purpose, should they have to pay for the cost of fixing the window as part of the punishment?

This is meant to make up for the harm they caused and to show that their actions were not acceptable.

They will be scared and not do it again If someone knows that they will get in trouble if they take something that belongs to someone else, they might be less likely to do it because they don't want to face the consequences.

The punishment will teach them a lesson if someone gets in trouble for breaking a rule, a punishment that helps them understand why their actions were wrong will help them make better choices in the future.

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COMMON PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE Can you think of debates that will require you to use these principles?

Retribution or Retributive Justice Retribution is a punishment that is given to someone who has done something wrong or broken the law. This punishment is meant to make up for the harm that was caused by the person's actions.

Deterrence Deterrence is a way to prevent people from doing something that is wrong or illegal. It works by making people afraid to do the wrong thing because they know that there will be consequences for their actions

Rehabilitation Rehabilitation is a way to help people who have done something wrong or broken the law to learn from their mistakes and become better people. It is meant to help them understand why their actions were wrong and to give them the tools and support they need to make better choices in the future.

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Companies that are responsible for the pollution of the environment are made to pay heavy fines. Can you all explain why this is a form of retributive justice?

Are there other examples of crimes and punishments that are based on retributive justice where the punishment matches the crime?

People say that the prison is a scary place, so sending somebody to jail is meant to be good deterrence. Can you all give some points about why prison is scary?

I'll start with prison being a place that has bad food. So people cannot choose to eat their favourite food while they are in prison.

People say that the prison is a scary place, so sending somebody to jail is meant to be good deterrence. Can you all give some points about why prison is scary?

I'll start with prison being a place that has bad food. So people cannot choose to eat their favourite food while they are in prison.

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COMMON PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE Commonly discussed debate topics relating to principles of justice

Retribution or Retributive Justice

DEATH PENALTY Also known as "Capital Punishment"

Fair punishment?

The death penalty, also known as capita certain crimes, such as murder.

The punishment for taking away som

It is the harshest punishment reserve

Would it be fair to sentence a thief (some

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l punishment, is the practice of sentencing, someone, to death for

meone's life is to take away your life ed for the most heinous of crimes

eone who stole money from a shop) to death?

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COMMON PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE Commonly discussed debate topics relating to principles of justice

Deterrence

JAIL SENTENCE Also known as "Incarceration"

Jail can be a sca familiar with the people include:

Loss of freed Lack of priva

Separation f

If jail or prison is again after they' of the punishme

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ary place for many people, especially for those who are not experience. Some reasons why jail might be scary for some

dom acy from loved ones such a scary place, why do some people still commit crimes

ve been released from prison? Is it because they are not afraid ent?

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COMMON PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE Commonly discussed debate topics relating to principles of justice

Rehabilitation

TURN OVER A NEW Avoiding a life of crime

How can Education, Religion and Counselling some ways to include these things in the punis

Education

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Counselling

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#Activity Time

Guilty or no

Now that you're all familiar with the pri punish criminals, we are going to try a help you think about the other side of j

Each of you will be given a crime. This committed. You are now given a chan why you did that crime and why you s

LET'S GO!

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is a very bad crime that you've ce to explain to the judge on should be forgiven.

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Activity

GUILTY OR NOT? Everyone will be allocated a 'crime' that you've committed You all have 10 minutes to plan a speech to explain why you did it and why the judge should forgive you and not punish you You can be creative with your story Each person gets a maximum of 3 minutes to speak and after that the audience gets to ask questions about your reason(s) given Everyone in the class will vote to either FORGIVE or PUNISH

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Example for reference Crime You used a stick to hit an older kid and ran off with his school bag.

Reason The older kid was a school bully and he stole my best friend's laptop and refused to give it back.

He was going to sell the laptop when I stopped him. He was bigger than me so I wouldn't be able to win him in a fight, so I used a stick to hit him.

I ran off with the school bag so that I can return the laptop to my best friend.

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SOME NASTY CRIMES RESPONSIBLE FOR Arson You set fire to an old folks' home. Some people could get out in time and unfortunately died in there.

Robbery You robbed a woman with a knife and took her gold chain necklace.

Animal Abuse You dropped a cat from the 10th storey. The cat was found dead at the bottom of the building.

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THAT YOU WERE Theft You and your friends sneaked into a supermarket store, stole 20 boxes of chocolates and a whole cart of milk.

Poison Your company poured toxic waste into the river.

People who drank from the river water got poisoned and many were hospitalised.

Murder Your grandmother was in the hospital and you turned off her oxygen supply. She passed away shortly after that.

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#Preparation

Prepare yo defences

This activity is to explore arguments of have 10 minutes to plan your speech a explain the reasons behind why you di

Convince the audience and we'll vote t

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f mitigation and defences. You and we will hear each one of you id what you did.

to forgive you for what you did!

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Time's up!

3-minute S Once you explained yourself, we'll ask

E.g. "why didn't you go to the police ins own hands?"

After which, we'll vote!

LET'S GO!

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stead of taking matters into your

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AVOIDING PUNISHMEN MITIGATION AND DEFE Self-Defence Acted in self-defense or in defense of another person, and that their actions were necessary to protect themselves or others from harm.

Under Duress or Coercion Under duress or pressure from someone else to commit the crime. E.g. threatened by another person to do it.

Accident No malicious intent to commit the crime, just an unfortunate accident.

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NTS: ENCES Aversion of Greater Harm Actions were necessary to protect others from more catastrophic harm. E.g. killing a terrorist so that they won't go bomb up a building.

Mentally Incapacitated Not legally responsible for their actions because they were suffering from a mental illness at the time of the crime.

Consent The victim of the crime gave their consent to the actions that the defendant is accused of. E.g. the dying grandmother's last wish is to die peacefully.

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Debate Practice

Let's practi some debat

Try to apply the things you've learnt to explore. I would like you to try setting a arguments to support your side.

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o the topics we are about to a policy and then provide some

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Topic #1 - Beginner Level

VANDALISM AND DESTRUCTION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY Motion This house would enforce jail time for those responsible for defacing public property, even if their works are considered art.

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PRACTICE CASE SETUP Prepare a speech detailing your policy and some key definitions. Thereafter, provide some points to support your case.

Note: Your purpose is to show understanding of the topic, and convince the audience that it is an urgent matter.

I'll split you all into 2 groups, proposition and opposition.

You have 10 minutes to prepare for this, and I will be giving you feedback on how to improve your cases.

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Topic #2 - Intermediate Level

APPROPRIATE SENTENCING GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS Info Slide

Sentencing algorithms determine criminal sente defendant and the crime committed to create a The majority of sentencing algorithms in the sta on existing datasets.

Motion

This House Believes that algorithmic sentencing

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I'll split you all into 2 groups, proposition and opposition.

You have 10 minutes to prepare for this, and I will be giving you feedback on how to improve your cases.

REBUTTAL PRACTICE Some up with arguments and we'll focus on taking them down with the knowledge we've learnt today!

ences by using personal data inputs of the an "optimum" sentence for the circumstances. atus quo use machine learning and are trained

g is preferable to judge determined sentencing.

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