Who are you? - Emergency Brake

Crime and punishment
Dividing the group in pairs.
Give the pairs the cards and instruct them to combine
one crime/norm braking behaviour with one punishment
in consensus by discussing. Note that there are more
punishment cards than there are norm braking behaviour
cards. That is because the participants should have a
wider variety of punishment to choose from. In the end
there should be 6 punishment cards that are not used.
When the pairs have finished their discussion and have
combined the cards they will have a scale of value
judgments about crime, from the most to the least
severe.
The next step is to put the pairs together in groups of
four. Each pair has a scale of value judgments about
crime. Now they will have to discuss their scales and, in
consensus by discussing, make a new one for the group
of four.
If you like, you can make this procedure over again
and make a group of eight. But as more people try to
understand each other’s value judgments the longer
time it will take.
Encourage discussions about the fact that people judge
differently.
- What happened in the pairs and groups?
- What was hard?
- Why was it hard?
- What is a crime?
- Why is it a crime?
- Why do people value crime different?
You will have to make the norm braking cards and the
punishment cards. Following is a list of norm breaking
behaviours and punishments that you can use. Note
that three punishments, ”Death penalty”, “Walking the
street with a sign telling about the crime for a week” and
“Public whipping 100 lashes”, is not used in EU and is
thought of as inhumane and cruel.
You can also make up your own norm breaking
behaviours and punishments. This is recommended if
you want to try this method with younger children. You
might also want to use examples that are more in line
with your country’s culture.
Norm breaking behaviours:
Scribble on a public place
Spit on a public bus
Steal candy for 4 EURO
Unfaithfulness
A passer-by shows his male genitalia to children in the
day care
A man hits his wife with his fist
See a murder but don’t report it
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B - Values
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In this method the group
members will have to
discuss their values about
norm braking behaviour.
It is done by making them
link together a punishment
(or in some cases no punishment)
with a norm
braking behaviour. We use
the term “norm braking behaviour”
because it isn’t a
crime until the participants
value it as a crime.
- to understand that
values differ from person
to person.
Teenagers, young adults
4 - 16
60 - 120 minutes
20 norm braking
behaviour cards and
26 punishment cards
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