What was law enforcement like in the middle ages?
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- What was law enforcement like in the middle ages (1450-1750)?
- The hue and cry
- Method of policing
- Villagers had to look for criminals in tithings (groups of ten)
- effective because villagers knew each other
- Required a stable community
- Tithings had to take suspected criminals to court
- Method of policing
- Law and order
- Trial by Jury was the method used to convict criminals
- Where both sides gave their accounts of the events
- The jury was made up of local men
- You could be found innocent if they swore on oath
- They needed support from character witnesses
- Landowners were appointed as justices of the peace
- Trial by Jury was the method used to convict criminals
- Sanctuary
- where criminals were given 40 days of safety
- Churches and cathedrals
- During this time criminals couldn't be convicted or taken to court
- where criminals were given 40 days of safety
- Sheriff and Posse
- Job was to track down and imprison accused criminals
- The posse was any boy over 15 who was summoned to help the Sheriff
- Coroner
- inspect dead bodies
- Enquire into all unnatural deaths
- With the help of the jury they would give evidence in court
- Constable
- Led the hue and cry and organised the tithings
- Were not regular police but local villagers
- Ways to avoid the death penalty
- Buy a pardon
- Join the army
- Get pregnant
- Become a kings approver
- Claim the benefit of the clergy
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- The hue and cry
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