Social construction of criminality (Time) 1.2

Question 1

Laws changing over time:
Homosexuality?

Answer 1

Homosexual acts were made a crime in 1885, decriminalised in 1967, consent age reduced in 2000

Question 2

Reason for homosexuality changes?

Answer 2

Campaigns, and the Wolfenden report, human rights, politicians

Question 3

Capital punishment?

Answer 3

Hanging, branding, caning
Abolished in 1998

Question 4

Reason for changing capital punishment?

Answer 4

Now regarded as a breach of human rights, could be a miscarriage of justice

Question 5

Laws relating to children: summary?

Answer 5

Compulsory schooling, child protection

Question 6

Reasons for change to child laws?

Answer 6

Children’s rights, laws and policies that only apply to children