Crime & Punishment

• moral crimes

  actions not physically harming anyone or anything but didnt meet societies view on good behaviour eg, having an affair
• crime against property

  theft, robbery, and damaging things belonging to others
• crime against a person

  assult, murder, or any kind of physical harm
• crime against authority


  plotting to kill the king, and/or helping others to replace him
• hue and cry


  means that if someone saw something they would shout loudly and everyone around would have to come and help you find the criminal, if you were caught not helping, you would be fined
• werglid


  the system of compensation in which the criminal would have to give the person or their family the money owned on what the society thought the right amount to pay was
• cold water


  mainly to decide if women were witches - wrists and ankles tied up, if you floated you were guilty and if you sunk you were innocent.
• hot water


  a pebble was thrown into a couldron, the person would have to retrieve it as their punishment, their hand would be wrapped afterwards
• fire


  heated up an iron bar and gave to the person, they would be given a distance to walk with it, their hand was bandaged up and undone three days after to see if it had begun to heal yet or not
• sacrament


  have to swallow a piece of bread but if you choke you were seen as guilty, if you managed to without any trouble you were seen as innocent
• combat


  used for wealthy people when two knights would fight, whatever one was pushed down first would lose whilst the other still standing would of won the battle.
• forrest laws


  introduced by william and the law was made that it was illegal to chop down trees for building and people who lived in the forrest could not own dogs, bows, or arrows.
• an outlaw was...


  a man who ran away trying to avoid trial or punishment and a walved woman was the same as an outlaw but female instead
• a vagabond was


  someone who traveled and moved from place to place without a home or job
• the bloody code

  the name given to the english legal system in the 17th century and continued until the 19th. it was known as the bloody code as the numbers of crimes for which the death penalty could be imposed for
• policing in whitechapel

  the widespread poverty made it hard for the police in whitechapel to have a good reputation, they weren't good at their jobs as it was very difficult.
• h division


  walked with a beat, patrol the streets hoping their presence will scare off the unwanted, involved in trying to catch jack the ripper.
• open prisons


  they were used so people inside would be able to leave for the day in order to work, so they would gain the idea of how normal life was like after they would be released from prison once their sentence was up.
• peabody estate


  built to get rid of the slum areas of Whitechapel, included blocks of flats which were there to house the homeless and make the streets more safer and cleaner
• h division


  walked with a beat, policing in Whitechapel, warned off people who were unwanted in the area
• gunpowder plot


  happened in 1605, it was a failed mission in order to try and kill the king during the opening of parliament.
• matthew hopkins 


  he was an english witch hunter during the witch craze of the civil war, he names 300 women to be witches in his time
• Whitechapel vigilance committee


  they were a group of unpaid volunteers that patrolled the streets of whitechapel in 1888 in response to the jack the ripper cases
• tolpuddle martyrs


  they were 6 english farm labourers who were sentenced to transportation to Australia for swearing and keeping secret oaths
• pentonville prison


  built to house the high number of criminals that were no longer being transported to Australia or america, the aim of the prison was to reform the criminals and make them better people
• what date was the norman invasion

  1066
• what is a tithing


  a group of men age 12 and over put into a group, if one commits a crime, the others have to pay a fine
• who built castles to control land and people

  the normans
• the normans introduces what section of trial by ordeal

  combat