crime and punishment

• 1070


  Forest Laws introduced
• 1194


  Coroners introduced
• 1361


  Justices of the Peace created
• 1495


  Beggars and Vagabonds Act
• 1534


  The Reformation (England becomes Protestant)
• 1542


  Witchcraft is given the death penalty
• 1547


  Vagrancy Act - vagabondage is punishable by death
• 1556


  Bridewells are first used
• 1563


  Minor and major witchcraft are defined
• 1604


  Harsh policies are introduced to control Catholics
• 1605

  The Gunpowder Plot
• 1650


  Hash Puritan laws are introduced
• 1736


  Anti-witchcraft laws are abolished
• 1749


  Bow Street Runners are introduced
• 1765


  Bloody Code
• 1788


  Transportation to Australia begins
• 1774


  Gaol Act
• 1789


  French Revolution
• 1822


  Robert Peel becomes Home Secretary
• 1829


  Metropolitan Police are established by Robert Peel
• 1834


  Tolpuddle Martyrs are arrested
• 1842


  CID is established // Pentonville Prison is finished
• 1854


  End of Bloody Code - capital punishment for murder only
• 1888


  Jack the Ripper
• 1908


  Borstals set up for Young Offenders
• 1916


  Conscientous Objection becomes a crime
• 1948


  Criminal Justice Act - abolishes hard labour and corporal punishment in prisons
• 1950


  Timothy Evans executed
• 1953


  Derek Bentley executed
• 1955

  Ruth Ellis executed - the last woman to be executed for murder
• 1965


  Homosexuality decriminalised
• 1988


  Criminal Justice Act - introduces Young Offenders Institutes
• 1997


  Derek Bentley is posthumously pardoned
• 2004


  EU convention bans Britain from bringing back the death penalty
• 2005


  London terrorist attacks
• c1000-c1500


  Medieval Era
• Wergild


  Fines paid to the victims of crimes in Anglo-Saxon England
• Corporal Punishment


  Injuring criminals as punishment for crimes i.e. maiming, flogging, mutilation, branding etc.
• Capital Punishment

  The Death Penalty
• Retribution


  Punishing a criminal as revenge for their crime