Crime and Punishment in Buddhism — Eduqas Religious Studies C120 | GradeGen
Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies · C120
Crime and Punishment in Buddhism
Content from a Buddhist Perspective
What you need to know
Analyze the Buddhist criteria for defining an act as wrong or unskilful.
Evaluate Buddhist ethical responses to crime, incorporating relative and absolute morality, ahimsa, karuna, karma, samsara, the Eightfold Path, and the Five Precepts.
Explain Buddhist attitudes toward the causes of crime and the aims of punishment (justice, retribution, deterrence, reformation), utilizing the Story of Milarepa.
Describe Buddhist approaches to the treatment of criminals, highlighting the work of prison reformers, chaplains, and the Angulimala Society.
Assess varied Buddhist responses to the death penalty by interpreting the Middle Path, Five Precepts, karuna, ahimsa, and metta.
