Module - Crime and Punishment
- Understand the difference between a crime and a sin
- Understand the purpose of laws and reasons for obeying them
- Understand the concepts of justice and injustice
- Awareness of Christian teaching about judgement, forgiveness and punishment
- Understanding the concept of human rights
- Understand different theories of punishment
- Consideration of society's obligation to protect its weaker members
- Consideration of the treatment of convicted prisoners
- Consideration of whether Capital Punishment is ever justifiable
- Understanding of the concept of Prisoner of Conscience
- Awareness of the case of one Prisoner of Conscience arrested for their Christian beliefs
- Consideration of what, if anything, the students feel strongly enough about to go to prison for
