kt2 early modern new crimes

• enclosure


  1671 games act - made it illegal to take food from privately owned enclosures
• what led to crime in enclosure

  • growth in poverty led to the rich becoming suspicious and resentful of the poor .
  • increase in poor people also led to increase in crime
• how did enclosure affect the poor

  open land and field became privately owned , poorer people couldnt access this land for food etc