2. Based on The Crucible’s telling of the Salem Witch Trials, what do you think should have been the punishment for the girls who testified and cried witch on people?
As a standard rule of thumb, you should never snitch on someone. Agree or disagree? Why?
Snitching, however, is okay if it gets you out of trouble.
How many of you would call Crime Stoppers on an acquaintance at school in order to collect the reward cash?
When should someone under the age of 18 be tried and punished as an adult?

3. 6. How do you feel about the death penalty that many states have active in their judicial system today? Discuss why you are in favor of or oppose the death penalty in our country: 7. Do you think good people sometimes do really bad things, or do you think most major crimes are committed by “bad” people? Explain why: 8. How effective do you think our prison system is in the punishment and deterrent of crime? What could be done to make our current system a more effective one?

4. Punishment = Crime???
For each of the following, what do you think is a fair punishment for someone found guilty of these examples of various crimes:
Stealing a car
Stealing someone’s cell phone at school
Public Intoxication
Driving 90 on the interstate
Driving under the influence
Excessive school absences
Fighting at school
Fighting at Applebee’s
Breaking into someone’s house and robbing them while they aren’t home
Robbing someone at gunpoint
Robbing a bank
Smoking in the school restroom
Student hitting a teacher
Calling a bomb threat into the school
15) Calling a bomb threat into the White House
16) Stealing someone’s identity and using his/her name to open credit cards
17) Sexually harassing someone at work
18) Sexually harassing someone at school
19) Jaywalking
20) Killing someone while driving drunk
21) Killing someone intentionally with some sort of weapon
22) Beating up a girlfriend/wife
23) Vandalizing someone’s car
24) Rape
25) Talking during silent time in Mr. Tucker’s class

5. DUE by Next Friday:
You must do a little research and find out what our current for-real legal consequences are for 10 of the 25 crimes listed on the previous slide. Each crime + punishment should be written on an index card or similarly sized piece of paper. (Your name on the back.) Yes, KY/USA/BGHS. We don’t care what they do to criminals in France or Peru or India or…
Research and create a newspaper front page story about a famous trial from history. We are NOT actually starting this today, but do be aware of it.