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KS3 & KS4 religious education curriculum

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Religious education
Year 11

Religion, crime and punishment

15 lessons

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In this unit pupils will study ideas of crime and how people may view crime is caused. From that, they will examine different ideas of punishing crime and treating criminals focussing especially on a case study of the death penalty and ideas of forgiveness.

This unit is situated in Year 11 so pupils can use their understanding of Christian and their other chosen religions beliefs to apply it to ideas of crime and punishment. Pupils will see how concepts of forgiveness and justice may be applied in societies today and the positions that people of different religious backgrounds may take.

  1. Good and evil intentions
  2. Reasons for crime: poverty and upbringing
  3. Reasons for crime: mental illness and addiction
  4. Reasons for crime: greed and hate
  5. Opposition to an unjust law
  6. Views about people who commit crime
  7. Views about different types of crime
  8. The aims of punishment
  9. The treatment of criminals: prison and community service
  10. The treatment of criminals: corporal punishment
  11. Contrasting religious views about corporal punishment
  12. The concept of forgiveness
  13. Contrasting religious views about forgiveness
  14. Ethical arguments relating to the death penalty
  15. Contrasting religious views about the death penalty

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