How did attitudes to crime and punishment change in later Middle Ages?
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- How did attitudes to crime and punishment change in later Middle ages?
- The Assize of Claredon
- 1166. the courts were re-organised.
- Prisons were set up for those who were accused and waiting for trial.
- Justices in Eyre
- Henry II ordered royal judges to visit each country twice a year to hear the most serious criminal cases.
- Increased the role of the king in legal matters
- Stronger centralised control over the court system.
- whole country was becoming more uniform
- Government appointed officials
- more centralised approach was needed to control crime, role of government began to increase
- similar law enforcement methods began to be used across different areas
- older approaches remained in use too
- Constables
- less serious crimes (elements of old Anglo-Saxon practices continued at a local level)
- local officials = tythingmen were known as constables in the Anglo-Saxon times
- The Statue of Labourers
- it was a crime to ask for higher wages
- Plague (1/3 of workers died)
- more peasants could demand higher wages
- ruling classes wanted to protect their wealth
- law introduced a maximum wage for workers
- passed by parliament in 1951
- illegal to move to another job to get a better pay
- Change: later Medieval period, more laws were being made and passed
- Continuity: ruling class also introduced laws to protect their own interests at the expense of peasants
- Coroners
- King Richard I introduced coroners to deal with situations where there was a suspicious death (1194)
- Justices of the Peace
- all men judged to be 'good or lawful' were appointed to the role
- Met four time a year to carry out their magistrate duties and enforce law.
- The Assize of Claredon
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