Crime and Punishment Dates

Question 1

When was the Early Modern Era?

Answer 1

c.1500s - 1700s

Question 2

When was the Industrial Era?

Answer 2

c.1750s - 1800s

Question 3

When was the Modern Era?

Answer 3

1900s - present day

Question 4

How long was Queen Mary’s Reign?

Answer 4

5 years (1553-8)

Question 5

How many heretics were burnt at the stake by Mary I?

Answer 5

Over 280

Question 6

When was Rawlins White Burnt?

Answer 6

1555

Question 7

How much did England’s population increase by from 1750 to 1850?

Answer 7

6 million in 1750 to 21 million in 1850

Question 8

When was the Merthyr Rising?

Answer 8

1831

Question 9

When was the Newport Rising?

Answer 9

1838

Question 10

When were the Swing Riots?

Answer 10

1830-31

Question 11

When were the Rebecca Riots?

Answer 11

1839-43

Question 12

When were the Scotch Cattle active?

Answer 12

1820s

Question 13

When were the Luddites active?

Answer 13

1811-1813

Question 14

Who was the fictional leader of the Swing Riots?

Answer 14

Captain Swing

Question 15

Who was the fictional leader of the Luddites?

Answer 15

Ned Ludd

Question 16

When were the Chartists active?

Answer 16

1838-1848

Question 17

Llanidloes Rising (Chartists)

Answer 17

1839

Question 18

How many Chartists were killed in the Newport Rising?

Answer 18

22

Question 19

Who were the leaders of the Newport Rising?

Answer 19

John Frost, Zephaniah Williams, William Jones

Question 20

When was the Red Flag first have though to be raised in Britain?

Answer 20

1831 Merthyr Rising

Question 21

When did cars first appear on British roads?

Answer 21

1895

Question 22

When were MAC active?

Answer 22

1963-1969

Question 23

What were MAC protesting against?

Answer 23

The flooding of Capel Celyn and the flooding of the Tryweryn Valley

Question 24

Where did MAC bomb?

Answer 24

Pipeline to Liverpool
Government Buildings
The Investiture of Prince Charles

Question 25

When were the Sons of Glyndŵr active and what did they do?

Answer 25

1980s Firebombed holiday homes in Wales owned by English people

Question 26

When was highway robbery and smuggling prevalent?

Answer 26

18th century

Question 27

When were the Napoleonic Wars?

Answer 27

1815

Question 28

When were the Troubles?

Answer 28

1968-1998

Question 29

When was the Brighton Hotel bombing?

Answer 29

1984

Question 30

When were the Birmingham Pub bombings?

Answer 30

1974

Question 31

When were Night Watchmen first employed?

Answer 31

1663

Question 32

When were the Bow Street Runners created?

Answer 32

1750s

Question 33

When were the acts of Union that unidie the English and Welsh legal systems?

Answer 33

1536-43

Question 34

When was the Peterloo Massacre?

Answer 34

1819

Question 35

When was the Metropolitan Police set up?

Answer 35

1829

Question 36

How many police constables were there originally?

Answer 36

3,300

Question 37

How large was the original area the Met policed?

Answer 37

7 miles

Question 38

When and what was the County and Borough Police Act?

Answer 38

1856 - made it compulsory for every area to set up a police force

Question 39

How many police officers and forces were there in 1900?

Answer 39

46,000 officers 243 forces

Question 40

Which county and when was the first in Wales to set up a police force?

Answer 40

Glamorgan in 1842

Question 41

What has the number of police officers increased from to in 2017 from 1900?

Answer 41

1900 - 46,000 officers 2017 - 125,000 officers

Question 42

What has the number of police forces decreased from to in 2017 from 1900?

Answer 42

1900 - 243 forces 2017 - 43 forces

Question 43

When were Police Community Support Officers first introduced?

Answer 43

2002

Question 44

When were Neighbourhood Watch Schemes first introduced?

Answer 44

1982

Question 45

When were women first allowed to join the police force?

Answer 45

1919

Question 46

When were women were finally given equal rights to men in the police force?

Answer 46

1975

Question 47

What are the 4 police forces in Wales?

Answer 47

Dyfed-Powys, Gwent, North Wales and South Wales

Question 48

When was the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) (Detectives) set up?

Answer 48

1878

Question 49

When were fingerprints first used in Policing?

Answer 49

1901

Question 50

When did 999 first become available?

Answer 50

1937

Question 51

What were the main ideas surrounding punishment in the Early Modern Era?

Answer 51

Retribution and Deterrence

Question 52

What idea began to emerge in the Industrial Era about the use of punishment?

Answer 52

Reformation

Question 53

What is the main aim of punishment in the Modern Era?

Answer 53

Reformation

Question 54

How many Capital Offences (The Bloody Code) were there in 1819?

Answer 54

225

Question 55

When did transportation to America begin and end?

Answer 55

1654 to 1776

Question 56

When did transportation to Australia begin and end?

Answer 56

1788-1868

Question 57

When did Sir Robert Peel start to dismantle the Bloody Code?

Answer 57

1823

Question 58

By which year did the number of capital offences reduce to 5?

Answer 58

1861

Question 59

When was the pillory abolished?

Answer 59

1837

Question 60

When were the stocks abolished?

Answer 60

1872

Question 61

When were public executions ended?

Answer 61

1868

Question 62

How many new prisons were built in the mid 19th century?

Answer 62

90

Question 63

When did the Prisons Act introduce, "hard labour, hard fare and hard board"?

Answer 63

1865

Question 64

When were borstals first introduced?

Answer 64

1908

Question 64

When was solitary confinement ended?

Answer 64

1922

Question 64

When was hard labour ended?

Answer 64

1902

Question 65

When was the first open prison built?

Answer 65

1936

Question 65

When were borstals replaced with youth detention centres and youth custody?

Answer 65

1982

Question 65

When was probation introduced?

Answer 65

1907

Question 65

When was the death penalty abolished?

Answer 65

1965

Question 66

When was electronic tagging introduced?

Answer 66

1990s

Question 66

When was community service introduced?

Answer 66

1972

Question 67

When was Timothy Evans wrongly hanged?

Answer 67

1950

Question 68

When was flogging abolished in prisons?

Answer 68

1948

Question 69

What did the population of Merthyr Tydfil expand by from 1801 to 1851?

Answer 69

1801 - 8,000 people 1851 - 46,000 people

Question 70

What was China known as?

Answer 70

Little Hell

Question 71

When did Merthyr have the highest mortality rate in Wales and third in Britain?

Answer 71

1840s