Crime + Punishment

Cards (45)

  • Murdrum Fine
    1070
  • Forest Laws
    1072
  • Coroners Introduced
    1194
  • Pope Innocent III abolishes Trial by Ordeal
    1215
  • JPs extended to all areas
    1327
  • Church courts abolished- end of Benefit of the Clergy & Sanctuary
    1536
  • Witchcraft Act- becomes a capital crime
    1542
  • Poor Law
    1601
  • Gunpowder Plot
    1605
  • Transportation to America begins
    1615
  • Matthew Hopkins active
    1645-47
  • Bloody Code begins (50 crimes punishable by death)

    1688
  • The Black Act- Poaching= Capital crime
    1723
  • Witchcraft is no longer a capital crime
    1736
  • Fielding Brothers set up the Bow Street Runners
    1748
  • John Howard publishes recommendations for prison reform
    1777
  • Transportation to Australia begins
    1787
  • Elizabeth Fry visiting Newgate Prison
    1813
  • Gaols Act- prisoners held in categories
    1823
  • Metropolitan Police Force
    1829
  • Tolpuddle Martyrs
    1833
  • Pentonville Prison opens (on site of old Millbank Prison)
    1842
  • Police Act- compulsory to have a police force
    1856
  • End of Transportation (legally- last ship went in 1868)
    1857
  • Last public execution
    1868
  • Artisans Dwelling Act
    1875
  • Fenian bombs at Parliament and Tower of London
    1885
  • Sir Charles Warren = Chief Commissioner
    1886
  • Bloody Sunday Trafalgar Square demonstration
    1887
  • Whitechapel Murders
    1888
  • Blood types discovered 

    1901
  • Borstals introduced
    1902
  • Military Service Act (conscription)
    1916
  • Two-way radios in police cars and 999 number
    1930s
  • Police Training College created
    1947
  • Execution of Derek Bentley
    1953
  • Homicide Act- limits death penalty to 5 categories of murder
    1957
  • Death penalty abolished (permanent in 1969)
    1965
  • Sexual Offences Act- homosexuality decriminalised
    1967
  • Abortion Act- decriminalised (in certain circumstances)

    1968