Crime & punishment

• Crime & Punishment

  • Attitudes
  • Types
  • Causes
  • Punishments
  • Detecting/Policing
• Types of Crime


  • Heresy
  • Treason
• Lincoln Castle gaol (jail)


  Used for public executions and then private executions
• Context of Prisons


  • Prison used as a punishment
  • Prison used as a deterrent
  • Conditions in prisons were poor
• Problems in Prisons


  • Men & women in the same prison
  • Criminals & debtors (people who owe money) mixed together
  • No proper sanitation (clean water & toilets)
  • Prisoners were exploited by their gaolers (guards)
  • Security risk - trying to escape
  • Gaolers (guards) were not paid
  • Joint exercise yards - for men & women
• Call for Prison Reform


  • Cycle of offend - prison - release - re-offend
  • Some liked a life of crime
  • Lack of education
  • Lack of skills
  • Lack of encouragement
• Solutions for Prison Reform

  1. Separate exercise yards

  2. Infirmary (hospital)

  3. Improved sewage system

  4. New crown wing built - Victorian prison

  5. People held there until trial or transfers to another prison

  6. Prison was 'H' shaped - more secure

  7. Debtors kept in the Georgian prison - divided between cells and guard rooms

  8. 'Separate' system - keep prisoners on their own to reflect on their crimes

  9. Prisoners had own cell

  10. Central landing meant guards could watch prisoners

  11. Cells has a sink & toilet

  12. Prisoners slept in a hammock lit by gas light

  13. All prisoners had a chapel
• Lincoln adapted itself according to new laws and concerns about prisoner welfare
• A and B are similar

  Both show police patrolling streets to spot crime or victims of crime
• C is different


  It shows the development of technology in helping combat crime - Police viewing CCTV
• D - Wealthy landowner

  Biased opinion, doesn't like homeless people, wants them severely punished
• E - 21st century


  Big increase in homelessness, more trustworthy - Independent Journalist, critical of attitudes to punishing the poor
• Treason


  When you deliberately go against the monarch or country, punishable by death, seen as one of the worst crimes
• Worst Crimes


  • Murder
  • Treason
  • Heresy (go against religion or the time)
• Towns grew, people moved from the country to the town, no job when they arrive - may steal, pickpocketing, street robbery, vagrancy, poor laws not working