4 Lesson aims

o To investigate the main topics to be covered in Section 4: Religion: Crime and punishment.

o To explore the effects of religion on crime and punishment.

4 Learning outcomes

By the end of the lesson students should be able to: o identify the main topics in Religion: Crime

and punishmento explain how religion affects attitudes to

crime and punishment.

4 Starter

Look at page 91 of the student’s book. Where is this statue?

What does this statue represent?

Why does it have a sword in one hand and scales in the other?

This section of the examination specification requires you to look at:

Religion and the need for law and justice

Religion and capital punishment

Religion: drugs and alcohol.

Religion and the need for law and justiceYou will need to understand the effects of, and give reasons for your own opinion about:

why societies need laws to function properly why the laws need to be just and be administered by

a justice system why a justice system needs punishments and

arguments about what punishment should be based on

why justice is important for followers of Christianity why justice is important for the followers of one

religion other than Christianity.

Religion and capital punishment

You will need to understand the effects of, and give reasons for your own opinion about: what capital punishment is and non-religious

arguments about whether capital punishment should be used

why some Christians are against the use of capital punishment and why some Christians think it should be used

why there are different attitudes to capital punishment in one religion other than Christianity.

Religion: drugs and alcohol

You will need to understand the effects of, and give reasons for your own opinion about: the current laws on drugs and alcohol in the UK and

the reasons for them the social problems caused by the use of drugs and

alcohol the health problems drugs and alcohol cause to their

users the different attitudes to drugs and alcohol among

Christians the attitudes to drugs and alcohol in one religion

other than Christianity.