Different laws reflect differing ____ and ____ and attitudes between societies Male ____ is a crime in more countries than ____ is. Societies where law-making has been influenced by religion will often have ____ which prohibits adultery and have ____ attached to it Some ____ and religious groups allow for ____ marriages – although often this is for men rather than women Utah has enacted tough penalties for ____ in recent years, in a bid to move past the state's complicated ____ with the practice. In some countries, the death penalty can be used for crimes such as blasphemy, ____ and ____. The Swedes don't allow ____ or ____ to children Social construction is an idea that has been created and ____ by the ____ in a society What counts as ____ is simply whichever acts a ____ defines as criminal. So, it can differ from one society to another, and over time. There is nothing ____ about the way societies work. Instead, people shape ____ by constructing norms, values and moral codes which inform behaviours. In India, only men were liable to receive ____ for adultery. The law dictated that the woman could not be punished as an abettor. Instead, the man was considered to be a ____. After WW2, there was an increase in the number of prosecutions of ____ men. By 1956 there were over 1000 in prison. There were a number of high profile ____. The ____ Law Reform Society made up of leading public figures successfully campaigned for a change in the law in 1967 that legalized gay sex. Further ____ by, for example, Stonewall led to age of consent dropping to 16. From 2001, possession of both ____ and soft drugs was changed from a crime to a ____ offence, as long as the quantity was less than 10-days worth of personal use. ____ historically was very strictly regulated until 1975 government change led to influx of drugs. This led to highest rates of heroin addiction in Europe and soaring HIV rates In 1987, Michael Ryan, an unemployed antique dealer, shot and killed 16 people in ____, Berkshire. In 1996 – children and one teacher were shot dead at ____ primary school in Scotland by Thomas Hamilton, an unemployed former scout leader. In both cases most of the ____ were legally held.

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