Threat to Personal Security – Meaning and Types of Punishment | Punishment for Various Threats to Personal Security Primary 5 (Basic 5) Term 3 Week 6 Security Education

 

 

SECURITY EDUCATION

RELIGION AND NATIONAL VALUES

THIRD TERM  

WEEK 6

PRIMARY 5

THEME – ELEMENTS OF SECURITY 

PREVIOUS LESSON – Threat to Personal Security – Social Injustice | Meaning and Causes of Social Injustice | How to Prevent/Control Social Injustice Primary 5 (Basic 5) Term 3 Week 5 Security Education

 

 

TOPIC – SOURCE OF DANGERS AND INSECURITY 

LEARNING AREA

1. Introduction

2. Meaning and Types of Punishment

3. Punishment for Various Threats to Personal Security

4. Revision and Weekly Assessment (Test)

 

 

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES 

By the end of the lesson, most of the pupils should have attained the following objectives –

1. explain the term – punishment.

2. state  types of punishment.

3. mention punishment for various threats to personal security.

 

 

ENTRY BEHAVIOUR

The pupils can state some of the reasons for punishment.

 

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of pictures and video clips

 

 

METHOD OF TEACHING

Choose a suitable and appropriate methods for the lessons.

Note – Irrespective of choosing methods of teaching, always introduce an activities that will arouse pupil’s interest or lead them to the lessons. 

 

 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

1. Scheme of Work

2. 9 – Years Basic Education Curriculum

3. Course Book

4. All Relevant Material

5. Online Information

 

 

CONTENT OF THE LESSON

LESSON 1 – INTRODUCTION 

Personal security is an extra caution taken to ensure your personal safety at all time. The aims of taken extra caution is to protect ourselves from various threats to personal security such as predatory people, physical violence, domestic abuse, rape, robbery, cultism, social injustice, etc. Predatory people are people that takes advantages of weak or vulnerable such as women, children and old. 

All threats to personal security are criminal behaviours that are punishable offense by law.

 

 

MEANING AND TYPES OF PUNISHMENT 

Punishment is a penalty or sanction given for people that have intentionally committed crime(s) or offense. It may take forms ranging from capital punishment, flogging, forced labour, mutilation of the body to imprisonment and fines.

There are different types of punishment –

1. Incapacitation

2. Deterrence

3. Retribution

4. Rehabilitation

5. Restoration

 

INCAPACITATION

Incapacitation is a punishment given to any offenders by removing them from the society.

The offenders are taken to the prison, given a house arrest or taken for execution. This type of punishment prevent the criminal for committing further crime(s).

 

DETERRENCE 

Deterrence is a punishment given any offenders to discourage the them from committing crime(s) in the future.

 

RETRIBUTION 

Retribution is a punishment given to any offenders as the exact crime committed. For example, if anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses.

This kind of punishment is the oldest punishment and commonly known as an eye for an eye punishment.

 

REHABILITATION 

Rehabilitation is a punishment that prevents future crime by modifying or changing the criminal behaviour through education, vocational training, counselling, etc.

 

RESTORATION AND RESTITUTION

This is a punishment that prevents future crime by allowing the offenders an apology or compensate their victims.

 

 

LESSON 2 – PUNISHMENT FOR VARIOUS THREATS TO PERSONAL SECURITY 

Threats to personal security are rape, robbery, kidnaping, social injustice, cultism, etc. The common punishment to various threats to personal security are as follows:

1. Fine

2. Imprisonment with or without fine

3. Life imprisonment with or without hard work

4. Castration for serial rapists

5. Social services

6. Death sentence

 

REASONS OR BENEFITS FOR PUNISHMENT 

The benefits of punishment are as follows:

1. To prevent future crimes.

2. To discourage crimes.

3. To ensure justice for all.

4. To restore the victim’s faith in judiciary.

5. To send signal to the criminal minded people.

6. To allow offenders atone for the crime.

7. To alter the offender’s behaviour through education, training and counselling.

8. To promote peace and unity.

 

LESSON 3 – REVISION AND WEEKLY ASSESSMENT (TEST) – As stated in the performance objectives or weekly assessment. 

 

 

PRESENTATION

To deliver the lesson, the teacher adopts the following steps:

1. To introduce the lesson, the teacher revises the previous lesson. Based on this, he/she asks the pupils some questions;

2. Teacher organizes the pupils into two or more groups depending on the size of the class.

3. Teacher asks the pupils to explain the meaning of punishment with appropriate examples, illustrations or instances.

4. Teacher participates actively in the class discussion.

5. Teacher uses the pupil’s relevant responses to introduce the lesson – meaning and types of punishment.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils pay attention to the lesson introduction understand the concept of lesson.

6. Teacher leads a class discussion on the meaning and types of punishment.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils participate actively in the class discussion.

7. Teacher leads the pupils to state and discuss common punishment to various threats to security.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils state and discuss common punishment to various threats to security.

8. Teacher leads a class discussion on the benefits of punishment all for offenders.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils analyze the importance of punishment in their community.

9. Teacher summarizes the lessons on the board using appropriate lesson evaluation.

Pupil’s Activities – The pupils participate actively in the summarizes of the lesson by responding to most of the questions and write as instructed.

 

 

CONCLUSION

To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.

 

 

NEXT LESSON

Third Term Mid Term Test for Primary 5 (Basic 5) Term 2 Week 7 Security Education (52 Multiple Choice Questions)

 

 

LESSON EVALUATION 

Teacher ask pupils to:

1. explain the term – punishment.

2. state 3 types of punishment.

3. mention 3 common punishment to various threats to personal security.

4. analyze 3 benefits of punishment.

 

 

WORKBOOK

WEEKLY ASSESSMENT (TEST)

INSTRUCTION – Choose the correct answer from the options A – C. 

1. ______  is a penalty or sanction given for people that have intentionally committed crime(s) or offense.

A. Offender

B. Criminal

C. Punishment

 

2. An ______ is a person who has committed a crime.

A. Offender

B. Criminal

C. Punishment

 

3. ______ prevents future crime by removing the offender from society.

A. Incapability

B. Incapacitation

C. Incompetent

 

4. ______ prevents future crime by altering a offender’s behavior.

A. Rehabilitation

B. Restitution

C. Retribution

 

5. ______ prevents future crime by removing the desire for personal avengement (in the form of assault, battery, and criminal homicide, for example) against the defendant.

A. Rehabilitation

B. Restitution

C. Retribution

 

6. ______ prevents future crime by punishing the offender financially.

A. Rehabilitation

B. Restitution

C. Retribution

 

 

7. ______ is a punishment given any offenders to discourage the them from committing crime(s) in the future.

A. Difference

B. Determine

C. Deterrence

 

8. ______ prevent men ability to have sex.

A. Rape

B. Castration

C. Sex education

 

9. ______ is a place where prisoner are kept for a short or life time.

A. House arrest

B. Prison

C. Cage

 

10. ______ is also known as correctional facilities.

A. House arrest

B. Prison

C. Cage

 

11. ______ is a place where a prisoner is kept in his own apartment, rather than in a prison.

A. House arrest

B. Prison

C. Cage

 

12. A fine is the most common form of punishment for an offence given by the ______.

A. court

B. prison

C. government

 

13. ______ and ______ the maximum punishments for any offenders.

A. Imprisonment and fine

B. Death sentence and imprisonment

C. Life imprisonment and death sentence

 

14. ______ is the temporary release of a detained person until an investigation or trial is concluded.

A. Fine

B. Bail

C. Discharge

 

15. One of these is the benefits of punishment.

A. To support future crimes.

B. To assist future crimes.

C. To prevent future crimes.