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    • Examples of crimes that is illegal in the Uk but legal in other countries?
      Slavery, Bigamy, Child Labour
    • examples of crime that is legal in the Uk but illegal in other countries?
      Abortion, Homosexuality, Alcohol consumption
    • Examples of crimes that used to be illegal but are now illegal in the Uk?
      Suicide, Abortion, Homosexuality
    • Examples of crime that used to be legal but are now illegal in the Uk?
      Smoking indoors, Drink driving, Child labour
    • what is social construction?
      something that has been made or defined by society rather than occurring naturally
    • what is the social construction of criminality?
      whichever acts a society defines as criminal,
      one society/culture can define a particular act as criminal and pass a law against it while another sees nothing wrong with it
    • what is an example of how laws change over time?
      Physical Punishment
    • what is a physical punishment?
      any sanction that contains a physical element
      (hanging, hard labour, lethal injection)
    • what are the 2 categories of physical punishment?
      corporal punishment and capital punishment
    • what is corporal punishment?
      physical punishment that is intended to cause pain or discomfort
    • what is capital punishment?
      punishment that results in death
    • examples of capital punishment
      hanging, beheading, lethal injection, electric chair, drawn and quartering
    • examples of corporal punishment
      hard labour, flogging, birching, being placed in the stock, branding
    • key historical events from capital punishment
      • 11th centry-burning people at the stake
      • 13th century-hanging, drawing and quartering
      • 17th-19th century- the bloody codes
      • 1861- capital punishment was abolished for all crimes except murder and high treason
      • 1965- the murder act suspended the death penalty for an initial 5 year period and was made permerment in 1969
    • key historical events from corporal punishments
      • 1820- illegal to whip women
      • 1881- removal of whipping from the navy
      • 1948- illegal to whip/birch men
      • 1967- whipping abolished in prisions
    • why did laws on capital punishment change?
      • breaches a basic human right
      • the death penalty doesn't work as an effective deterrent
      • we believe people can change
      • society doesn't take pleasure in watching people being hanged anymore
      • to many miscarriages of justice
    • what were the significant dates for corporal punishment in schools?
      • 1783- poland bans corporal punishment in schools
      • 1967- the cane was abolished in Uk primary schools
      • 1982- Ireland ends all corporal punishments in schools
      • 1998- the cane was abolished in Uk private schools
    • what were the significant dates for corporal punishments for parents?
      • 1979- Sweden made it illegal for parents to smack their children
      • 1983- Finland made it illegal
      • 2020- Scotland made hitting children an offence
      • 2022- wales criminalised hitting children
    • why did the law on corporal punishment change?
      it was considered degrading, it was an abuse of power, the rights of children, it did not contribute to the good behaviour of children
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