Crime & Punishment

Question 1

Name 3 causes of crime in the M&S period and how do they link

Answer 1

1) Famine
2) Disease
3) High taxation
They are all reasons for poverty

Question 2

Give an example of famine in the M&S period

Answer 2

The Great Famine 1315

Question 3

Give an example of a disease in the M&S period

Answer 3

Black Death 1340s

Question 4

Give an example of the effects of high taxation in the M&S period

Answer 4

Peasants Revolt 1381

Question 5

Name 3 causes of crime in the Early Modern period and how do they link

Answer 5

1) Bad harvests
2) Inflation
3) Rising population
They are all reasons for poverty

Question 6

Name 4 causes of crime in the Industrial period

Answer 6

1) poverty
2) urbanisation (dense population, narrow alleyways)
3) changes in transportation (highway robbery)
4) government taxation (smuggling)

Question 7

Name 3 causes of crime in the Modern period

Answer 7

1) invention of cars
2) invention of internet
3) availability to drugs and alcohol

Question 8

Name 3 different natures of crime in the M&S period

Answer 8

1) Treason
2) Forest Laws (cutting down trees in King’s forest)
3) Rebellion

Question 9

Give an example of rebellion in the M&S period

Answer 9

Peasants Revolt 1381

Question 10

Name 3 different natures of crime in the Early Modern period

Answer 10

1) Increase vagrants (10,000)
2) Heresy (Mary 1 burned over 280 Protestants)
3) Can’t disagree with the King

Question 11

Name 3 different natures of crime in the Industrial period

Answer 11

1) Smuggling (50-100)
2) Highway Robbery/ Footpads
3) Protest Crime

Question 12

Name an example of a protest crime in the industrial period

Answer 12

Luddites 1813

Question 13

Give an example of a smugglers job

Answer 13

Venture - investor

Question 14

Name 3 different natures of crime in the Modern period

Answer 14

1) Terrorism
2) Cyber crime
3) Car crime

Question 15

Give 3 examples of terror attacks in the modern period

Answer 15

1) 9/11 attacks
2) 7/7 attacks in London 2005
3) IRA in the 1980s

Question 16

How much did it cost in phishing attacks in 2015?

Answer 16

£170 million

Question 17

Name 3 ways of enforcing law and order in the M&S period

Answer 17

1) Hue and Cry (if you heard the cry, you had to apprehend the criminal)
2) Sheriff and armed posse
3) Tithings (groups of 10)

Question 18

Name 3 ways of enforcing law and order in the Early Modern period

Answer 18

1) JP’s (30-60)
2) Parish Constable + Night Watchman
3) Charleys (created by Charles II)

Question 19

Name 2 ways of enforcing law and order in the Industrial period

Answer 19

1) Bow Street Runners (created by Fielding Brothers)
2) MET police 1829

Question 20

Name 3 ways of enforcing law and order in the Modern period

Answer 20

1) First female police 1919
2) DNA database
3) Forensic science

Question 21

Name 2 ways of combatting crime in the M&S period

Answer 21

1) Tithings (groups of 10 people responsible for policing)
2) England divided into shires with sheriffs policing them

Question 22

Name 2 ways of combatting crime in the Early Modern period

Answer 22

1) JP’s
2) Night Watchman

Question 23

Name 3 ways of combatting crime in the Industrial period

Answer 23

1) Thief takers (captured criminals for rewards, corrupt)
2) Bow Street Runners (preventative and professional policing)
3) MET police (Robert Peel, Peelers)

Question 24

What were characteristics of the MET police?

Answer 24

Covered a 7 mile radius, can read, write, work 7 days a week, wore a uniform and truncheon

Question 25

Name 2 ways of combatting crime in the Modern period

Answer 25

1) Radios used in 1910s 2) Anti terror branch 1971 3) 999 introduced in 1937

Question 26

Name 4 methods of punishment in the M&S period

Answer 26

1) Trials by ordeal (trial by hot iron) 2) Wergild (fines) 3) Whipping 4) Mutilation (branding)

Question 27

Name 4 methods of punishment in the Early Modern period

Answer 27

1) Death Penalty (Bloody Code) 2) Public hanging 3) Hung, drawn and quartered 4) Burning at the stake (heretics)

Question 28

How many crimes were punishable by the Bloody Code?

Answer 28

225

Question 29

Name 3 methods of punishment in the Industrial period

Answer 29

1) Transportation (2000 convicts a year) 2) Hulks 3) Penal colonies (cat o’ nine tails)

Question 30

Name 3 methods of punishment in the Modern period

Answer 30

1) Parole 2) Community service 3) Young offenders institution 1988 (ages 18-21)

Question 31

What are the difference between the Separate and Silent system?

Answer 31

Separate - useful work, can’t see other inmates, individual cells Silent - useless work, pointless tasks, unpleasant to prevent reoffending

Question 32

Name 3 attitudes to crime in the M&S period

Answer 32

1) Deter crime 2) Retribution of crimes 3) Keep order

Question 33

Name 3 attitudes to crime in the Early Modern period

Answer 33

1) Humiliate criminals 2) Deter crime 3) Prisons only used to hold criminals for short time

Question 34

Name 3 ways attitudes to crime changed in the Industrial period

Answer 34

1) Banned public execution (1868) 2) Improve Gaols (Gaols Act 1823) 3) Separate and Silent systems set up