nature of law enforcement

• what happened to the role of government?


  its role in controling crime increased?
• what did henry ii do and when? what was this known as?

  in 1166, he reorgansed the courts and set up prisons for those who were accused and waiting for trial. this was known as the Assize of Clarendon
• what was Justices of Eyre?


  royal justices, to visit each country twice a year to hear the most serious criminal cases.
• what were issued to local sheriffs and why?


  standard written instructions, so systems became more uniform across the country
• what systems continued in the later middle ages?

  townspeople were still expected to help catch offenders, and towns were divided into areas called wards to help with this.
• what were tithingmen come to be known as?


  parish constables
• what did richard i do in 1194?


  introduced coroners to investigate situations where there was a suspicious death
• what did richard i do in 1195?


  appointed some knights as keepers of the kings peace in areas that wee seen as unruly.
• what did edward ii do in 1327?


  he extended the system richard i made in 1195 to all areas
• what did edward ii's actions lead to?


  by 1361, the keepers of the king's peace became known as justices of the peace and met four times a year to carry out their duties.
• what did the heresy law of 1414 give to JPs?


  the power to arrest suspect heretics.