4. Read the excerpt below from the Code of Hammurabi of ancient Babylon and answer the
question that follows:
If anyone is committing robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death. If the robber is
not caught, then shall he who was robbed claim under oath the amount of his loss; then
shall the community... on whose ground and territory and in whose domain [the robbery
took place] compensate him for the goods stolen.
The excerpt above from the Code of Hammurabi suggests that:
a) Penalties for crimes in ancient Babylonian society were dependent largely on the social
status of the priminal.
b) Babylonian society was plagued by unusually high crime rates against personal property.
c) Babylonian law applied both the concept of individual responsibility and the concept of
collective responsibility in assigning penalties for crimes.
d) Punishments for crimes in Babylonian society were designed to protect the property of the king and members of the nobility