Roman Crime and Punishment
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- Created on: 07-05-16 10:58
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- ROMAN CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 500BC-400AD
- SERIOUS CRIMES
- Being a Christian
- Murder
- Killing the Emperor
- Arson
- Patricide - killing your father or master
- Stealing farm animals
- MINOR CRIMES
- Selling underweight bread
- Not keeping the street outside your hous e tidy
- Hooliganism
- Evading taxes
- Being a poor landlord
- Hunting deer
- PUNISHMENT-S
- SERIOUS CRIMES
- Crucifixtion
- Burned at the stake
- Death by pouring molten lead down the throat
- Decimation - Legionaries if one ran away 1/10 men killed
- If one slave tried to kill the master - all slaves killed
- Colosseum - gladiators/beasts
- Rolled of a cliff in a bag full of snakes
- MINOR CRIMES
- Repaying the cost of goods
- Whipping
- Confiscation of goods
- Exile - only for Noblemen
- Prison - held before trial
- SERIOUS CRIMES
- POLICING
- NO POLICE FORCE
- AEDILES - (city officials) - inspected shops to ensure bread was correct weight and inspected streets
- VIGILES - (7000 men) - chase and capture runaway slaves, prevent and put out fires, night partol
- URBAN COHORTS - keep order by stopping riots
- PRAETORIAN GUARDS - only used in emergencies to protect the Emperor
- TWELVE TABLES AND JUSTANIAN CODE - (450BC) designed to make Rome a better place
- SERIOUS CRIMES
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