AC1.2

Question 1

What is the assessment criteria for AC1.2?

Answer 1

Explain the social construction of criminality.

Question 2

What is crime and deviance relevant to?

Answer 2

Time, place, culture, role.

Question 3

What happened in the case of R V Ahuliwalia (1993) ?

Answer 3

Ahuliwalia suffered abuse and violence from her husband for years. She poured petrol in a bucket, lit a candle and set her husband on fire. Her husband had died from the injuries, she pleaded manslaughter on the grounds that she did not intend to kill him, only to inflict pain. She also pleaded the defence of provocation on grounds of her treatment during the marriage, she was convicted of murder but appealed the decision.

Question 4

What is some examples of laws that have changed or slow to change?

Answer 4

Vagrancy, the Vagrancy Act (1824) is still law.

Gender rights and domestic violence

Question 5

What is some examples of cross cultural deviance?

Answer 5

Adultery
Honour killings - Shafilia Arhmed
Witchcraft - Kristy Bamu
FGM
Bigamy/polygamy

Question 6

FGM key facts:

Answer 6

It involves partial or total removal of external features of female genitalia.
The practice has no benefits and causes severe problems during childbirth and day-to-day life.
More than 200 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 30 countries across the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
FGM is carried out on girls between infancy - 15.
In the UK FGM has been illegal since the Female Circumcision Act (1985)

Question 7

What is some examples of deviance based on change from place to place?

Answer 7

> Use and possession of cannabis
Jaywalking
The death penalty

Question 8

What is some examples of deviance based on position or role?

Answer 8

> Doctors turning off life support machines
Police killing someone
Emergency services

Question 9

What is historical deviance?

Answer 9

Something that is deviant only at a certain time

Question 10

What is cross-cultural deviance?

Answer 10

Something that is deviant in some cultures

Question 11

What is situational deviance?

Answer 11

Something is deviant in certain situations

Question 12

What is deviance based on role or position?

Answer 12

Something that is devastating for many but an occupation/role might make it non-deviant.

Question 13

What are some examples of campaigns that influences change in law?

Answer 13

Vagrancy - Crisis #Scraptheact
Domestic abuse - R V R, R V Ahuliwalia
Homosexuality - Stonewall
Gun control laws - Snow drop campaign

Question 14

What are examples of how laws are applied differently according to circumstances in which actions occur?

Answer 14

Moral Panic
Typification - Chambliss and Cicourel
Age of criminal responsibility
Homicide