Crime and punishment

• Explain one way in which the nature of punishment during the years c1500-c1700 was different from the nature of punishment in the period c1900-present.


  Punishment during the years c1500-c1700 was often physical (such as the stocks or whipping) whereas punishment during the period c1900-present is rarely physical and tends to be community service, fines or prison.
• Explain one way in which the treatment of the Tolpuddle Martyrs was similar to the way Conscientious Objectors during the First World War were treated.


  Both the Tolpuddle Martyrs and Conscientious Objectors were seen as troublemakers and treated harshly – the Tolpuddle Martyrs were transported and Conscientious Objectors were imprisoned if they refused to serve in any way.
• Explain one way in which the role of local communities in law enforcement in the medieval period was similar to the role of local communities in law enforcement in the modern period.

  In both periods, the local community was expected to uphold the law. The tithing system in the medieval period made men responsible for each other’s good behaviour and Neighbourhood Watch schemes in the modern period aim to deter criminals by suggesting the area is closely monitored.
• Forest laws


  1072
• Norman invasion

  1066
• Mudrum


  1070
• Doomsday Book


  1086
• Constitutions of clarendon

  1164
• Coroners


  1194
• End of trial by ordeal

  1215
• Justices of the peace


  1327
• Black death reaches England

  1348
• Statute of labourers

  1351
• Hung, drawn and quartered introduced


  1352
• Burning at the stake for heresy


  1401
• End of sanctuary


  1536
• Demonologie


  1597
• Vagrancy act

  1547
• Thanksgiving act


  1605
• Gunpowder plot

  5th November 1605
• Popish recusants act

  1605
• Mathew Hopkins witchfinder general

  1645
• Game act

  1671
• Black act

  1723
• End of transportation to Australia

  1868
• Bow street runners set up by the Feilding brothers


  1748
• Elizabeth Fry reforms

  1817
• John Howard reforms


  1774
• Prisons act

  1865
• National crime records set up

  1869
• Long depression


  1772-1879
• Peabody estate

  1881
• Ripper murders

  1881 Aug-Nov
• Special branch

  1893
• CID

  1878
• Dynamite saturday

  1885
• Housing of the working classes act

  1890
• Public health amendment act

  1890
• Probation

  1907
• Military service act

  1916