PUNISHMENT

• Fines were still used for minor crimes.
• Corporal punishment (stocks, flogging) was still used, for begging, drunkenness and vagrancy.
• Hanging was still used for theft, murder and poaching, with the addition of witchcraft and smuggling.
• Heretics were burned.
• The Bloody Code lasted from 1688-1825.
• In 1688, there were 50 capital offences, and by 1825 there were 222.
• The Bloody Code existed as a deterrent to crime.
• Criminals began to be transported to North America under James I.
• Transportation lasted 7 or 14 years, depending in the severity of the crime. Most people could not afford to return to England afterwards.
• Transportation was introduced as a deterrent, and a chance at rehabilitation, due to changing ideas about punishment.
• Transportation was used as an alternative to execution.
• Inhabitants and transported workers established colonies while removing criminals from England.