KQ5 - Attitudes to Punishment

• How many crimes were there in the Bloody Code in 1688 and 1815?

  1688: 50

  1815: 225
• When was the pillory abolished?

  1837
• When were the stocks abolished?

  1872
• What was the act that allowed for the banishment of criminals to North America?

  The 1717 Transportation Act
• In what year did Australia become the new destination for transportees?

  1787
• What was the name of the book written by Sir Samuel Romilly in 1810?

  Observations on the Criminal Law of England
• Sir Robert Peel got the death penalty abolished for how many crimes in the 1820s?

  Over 100
• By 1861, the number of crimes punishable by death had been reduced to how many?

  5
• What percentage of serious offenders were sent to prison in the 1860s?

  90%
• In what year was transportation abolished?

  1868
• Which 1895 report led to the passing of the Prisons Act?

  The Gladstone Committee
• When was the Prisons Act passed?

  1898
• How many people in Wales did Rowland Lee have publicly hanged between 1534 and 1543?

  Over 5000
• When was Mary Queen of Scots hanged?

  February 1587
• When were Borstals first set up?

  1902
• When were Borstals abolished?

  1982
• When were ASBOs first introduced?

  1999
• When were Tagging and Curfew Officers first introduced?

  2003
• When was the Homicide Act introduced?

  1957
• What was the Abolition of the Death Penalty Act passed?

  1969
• When did Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans become the victims of the last hangings in the UK?

  13th August 1964
• When was parole introduced?

  1967
• When were Probation Centres set up?

  1980s
• What was the name of the book written by John Howard in 1777?

  The State of Prisons in England and Wales