crime and punishment 1450-1750
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- Crime and Punishment 1450-1750
- Policing
- At this time there was no official police force.
- Punishment
- types of punishment
- Flogging
- hanging
- execution
- houses of correction
- the bloody code
- The increase in crimes punishable from death rose from 50 crimes to over 200
- The however led to fewer people being found guilty of crimes to avoid the death penalty
- The increase in crimes punishable from death rose from 50 crimes to over 200
- types of punishment
- crime
- begging
- Increased unemployment led to a higher number of beggars. They were seperated into two categories:
- Sturrdy beggars: beggars who were considered to be lazy and work shy.
- Deserving- people who were sick or injured. Were given a badge and allowed to beg.
- Increased unemployment led to a higher number of beggars. They were seperated into two categories:
- theft
- heresy
- Changes in peoples religious beliefs and the Monarchs beliefs led to an increase in heresy
- smuggling and poaching
- treason
- There were more disputes over who should be king (the war of the roses.)
- There were some who thought someone with a different religion should be monarch.
- begging
- Key indivduals
- Jonathon Wild thief taker general. However he was a successful criminal who got his rivals hanged for supposed crimes.
- attitudes to crime
- Punishment invented for and by the wealthy
- People were scared of crime and fearred the poor
- Policing
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