Early Modern 1500-1750

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  • Early Modern 1500 - 1750
    • Crime
      • Vagrancy
        • Pamphlets scared people away from vagrants. Look for work.
          • Came more popular due to growth in population
            • rapid rise in prices. bread rose.
        • used to beg and steal
      • Moral Crime
      • Organised Crime
        • Highway Robbery
        • Smuggling
  • Growing Puritan influence led to increased concern about people's sinful behaviour
    • Adultery, failing to attend Church, drinking, gambling, sex outside of marriage.
    • Moral Crime
  • Worried about Devil, women failed harvests, fear, anger, Puritans
    • Witchcraft
      • Crime
        • Vagrancy
          • Pamphlets scared people away from vagrants. Look for work.
            • Came more popular due to growth in population
              • rapid rise in prices. bread rose.
          • used to beg and steal
        • Organised Crime
          • Highway Robbery
          • Smuggling
  • Happened at night, 50-60 people, coastal, locals involved, import tax not needed to be paid
    • tea, brandy and cotton was cheap - government had increased the price of these items by 30%
      • violent but good way to get food cheap
    • done in secret
  • no banks, stole from travellers on unlit roads, very violent. Cut out someone's tongue once
    • 17th - 18th century- more roads built
      • coach travel became common and no. of travellers increased
        • People often carried money and jewellery with them
  • Shaming
    • Stocks / Pillory
      • stocks = legs pillory = head and arms in wooden frame
    • Punishment
      • bloody code
        • more crimes punishable by hanging
        • 200 crimes by 1820
      • Early Modern 1500 - 1750
      • Public humiliation
      • Whipping
        • burned through the ear with a hot iron. hole as large as a penny
      • scolds bridle
        • heavy iron frame locked on woman's head
      • cucking / ducking stools
        • ducking stools harsher
          • cucking stool - tied to chair and paraded
            • ducking stool - offender fastened to chair with an iron band, lowered into river. Die of drowning or shock
    • prisons
      • awaiting trial
        • debtors
      • Shaming
        • Stocks / Pillory
          • stocks = legs pillory = head and arms in wooden frame
        • Punishment
          • bloody code
            • more crimes punishable by hanging
            • 200 crimes by 1820
        • Public humiliation
        • Whipping
          • burned through the ear with a hot iron. hole as large as a penny
        • scolds bridle
          • heavy iron frame locked on woman's head
        • cucking / ducking stools
          • ducking stools harsher
            • cucking stool - tied to chair and paraded
              • ducking stool - offender fastened to chair with an iron band, lowered into river. Die of drowning or shock
    • vagrancy
      • house of correction
        • hard labour
      • bridewell
    • capital punishment
      • hanging
      • hanging, drawing and quartering
    • Petty Sessions (JPs)
      • Assizes (serious / royal courts)
        • Law Enforcement
          • manor courts (start to decline)
          • church courts (moral)
          • Quarter Sessions (JPs)
          • look at page 42-43 in textbook

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