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Question 1

What is the social construction of criminality?

Answer 1

Crime is made or defined by society

Question 2

What’s an example of a law changing from culture to culture

Answer 2

Polygamy

Question 3

What is polygamy

Answer 3

Having more than one wife or husband

Question 4

What is polygyny

Answer 4

Where a man has more than one wife

Question 5

What is polyandry

Answer 5

Where a woman has more than one husband

Question 6

Where is polygyny legal

Answer 6

Afghanistan

Question 7

Where is polyandry legal

Answer 7

Nepal

Question 8

Where is polygamy a crime

Answer 8

Uk

Question 9

Why does the law about polygamy vary between culture

Answer 9

Religion - Qur’an permits it

Tradition - Traditionally practiced in some African societies

Question 10

An example of a law changing over time

Answer 10

Capital punishment

Question 11

What is capital punishment

Answer 11

Execution by hanging

Question 12

What is corporal punishment

Answer 12

Includes flogging, birching, branding and being put in stocks

Question 13

How it capital punishment laws changed over time

Answer 13

1723 black act made over 50 offences capital crimes, over time this got gradually reduced until it was abolished in 1965

Question 14

How corporal punishment laws changed over time

Answer 14

Flogging in the armed forces was abolished in 1881 and all corporal punishment of offenders was abolished in 1967

Question 15

An example of how laws change between places

Answer 15

Gun control laws

Question 16

A law that allows guns in the USA

Answer 16

The second amendment

Question 17

Why moral panics change the way laws are applied

Answer 17

Those convicted of relativly minor offences committed during the london riots of 2011 were treated harsher than usual

Question 18

Why typifications change the way laws are applied

Answer 18

Chambliss did a study which showed that police officers have the idea of the typical criminal so those that fit this are more likely to be arrested

Question 19

How age affects the way laws are applied

Answer 19

Two people may commit the same act but get treated differently due to age

Question 20

Diminished responsibility

Answer 20

If a defendant can show that their mental condition substantially reduced the ability to understand what they were doing

Question 21

Loss of control

Answer 21

A partial defence that may reduce the offence to manslaughter

Question 22

Automatism

Answer 22

If they can show that it was involuntary, they can plead the defence of automatism