crime and punishment crime overtime

• anglo-saxon crimes

  crimes against person - murder

  crimes against property - petty theft

  crime against authority - treason
• when was the murdrum law made

  1070
• what was the murdrum law

  anglo-saxon killing a norman fine

  if the murderer was not found there was a special fine called the murdrum fine
• why did the murdrum law come about in the norman period

  to stop the revenge murders after the norman invasion
• when was the murdrum fine abolished 


  1350
• when was heresy laws introduced

  1382
• why did the heresy laws come about


  the clergy felt undermined and threatened by new ideas and medieval kings were keen to support the church against reformers
• what were people who commited heresy called

  heretics
• what is the crime of heresy

  disagreeing with the ideas of the church
• what were the law dates of heresy

  1401 - heretic burnt at the stake to symbolise purifying a corrupt soul

  1414 - gave JP's power to arrest suspected heretics.If church courts found the guilty they were taken to secular authorities where the appropriate punishment was carried out
• when was the statute labourers made

  1351
• what was the statute of labourers about

  Introduced a maximum wage for workers and made it a crime to ask for higher wages

  Made it illegal to move to a new area to look for a better paying job
• when was the forest laws created

  1072
• what were the forest laws

  William I made it illegal to hunt and illegal to carry hunting weapons or even take a falling branch on the common land owned by the king
• what did the forest laws create

  social crimes
• what are social crimes


  actions that are technically against the law but which most people in society approve of
• what were the factors that involved forest laws

  role of the king
• what were the factors that affected that caused the statute of labourers law

  the black death

  socio-economic factors
• when was the black death

  1348
• what was the change to heresy in the early modern period

  Heresy became linked to treason as Henry VIII made him and monarchs after him Head of the Church
• which monarch did not become head of the church

  Mary I
• What factor affected the change to heresy and treason

  The Reformation
• When was the English Reformation

  16th century
• what were the witchcraft laws

  1542 - Witchcraft Act

  1563 - Acts against conjuration enchantment and witchcraft

  1604 - Witchcraft and Conjuration

  1735 - all serious punishments abolished
• what type of vagabonds were pamphlets saying there were

  drummer - those pretending to be deaf and mute

  drunken tinkers - thieves using trade as a cover story

  priggers of prancers - horse theives

  kinchin morts - girl beggers
• laws made for vagabaonds

  1495 - Vagabonds and Beggars Act

  1547 - The Vagrancy Act

  1597 - Act for the Relief of the Poor

  1601 - Poor laws
• what were the factors that affected witchcraft

  The Enlightment

  Role of the monarch

  Socio-economic factors

  Matthew Hopkins

  Attitudes towards woman

  Role of religion
• Factors for smuggling

  Growth of population

  Socio-economic factors

  Role of goverment
• Why was there a rise in smugglingin the early modern period

  The government introduced import tax on a range of goods like alchol and tea.
• why was smuggling appealing to manyin the early modern period

  Profitable as many people were willing to buy goods at a lower price to avoid tax
• when was the game acts made

  1671
• why was there poaching in the early modern period


  enclosure made it harder for people to survive.Many poor people still continued to hunt rabbit and fish on enclosed land to survive
• what was the games act

  made it illegal for poor to hunt on enclosed land
• why was smuggling a social crime

  Because people benefitted from the crime and people of all classes participated in it
• why was poaching a social crime

  the upper class saw the poachers as trespassers and thieves but many felt sympathy for those found poaching

  many people did not think the law was fair and didn't care if it was upheld
• when was the puritan laws in action

  the 1650's
• what was the puritan laws a consequence of

  after the english civil war oliver cromwell took the title of Lord Protector
• how long was Oliver Cromwells 'reign'

  1653-58
• what were the puritan laws

  Sunday is Sabbath day.People should go to church and keep the day holy

  No drinking and feasting.As drinking is bad behaviour and people should not eat in excess and control their appetite

  Christmas is the most holy day of the year.People should spend it quietly by reading the Bible and thinking of Jesus
• When was the puritan bans lifted/decriminalised

  1660