Systems of Justice
- Click on Hammurabi's Code. A new tab should open with a website about Hammurabi's Code.
- Use the website to familiarize yourself with the rules in Hammurabi's Code. You may skim though the whole document, but focus on the first 25 laws.
- Look at each article below, in which a criminal was accused, found guilty, and sentenced. For each one, decide how things would be treated differently and the same using Hammurabi's Code. What general similarities and differences do you see between Hammurabi's Code and our current judicial system?