Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Britain
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- Created on: 07-05-16 17:21
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- EARLY MODERN BRITAIN CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 1500-1750
- CRIMES
- Heresy - going against the religion of the monarch
- Gunpowder plot 1605
- Witchcraft
- Vagrancy - homelessness
- Petty theft
- Violent crimes were a small minority of cases
- Smuggling
- Poaching
- Highway robbery
- Drinking and not going to church
- Riot and rebellion
- Crimes against property = 74%
- FACTORS EFFECTING CRIME
- Population growth
- Increased wealth and poverty
- Religious ideas
- Increased travel
- Taxation
- Landowner's attitudes
- Invention of printing
- Political change
- Heresy - going against the religion of the monarch
- PUNISHMENT
- Pillory - cheating at cards, selling underweight or rotten goods, persistent swearing
- Stocks - those who could not afford to pay fines
- Ducking stool - punish women who gossiped or disobeyed their husbands
- Carting (paraded in the streets) - vagrancy, adultery or running a brothel
- Whipping (publicly) - vagrants, petty thieves, drunkards and those who didn't attend church
- Fines - minor offences such as swearing and gambling
- Prisons - largely for debtors
- Bridewell /House of Correction - punish and reform offenders vagrants, unmarried mothers & runaway apprentices
- POLICING
- NO POLICE FORCE
- Hue and cry
- Constables
- Thief takers (1700s) - men who earned their living from the rewards they received for bringing criminals to justice
- CRIMES
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