Crime and punishment- Romans

ROMAN LAW AND ORDER

CAUSES:

• Greed
• Holiginism at chariot racing
• Alcholism
• Oppurtunity to do it
• Slaves wanting freedom
• Starvation and high food prices

CRIMES:

• Selling underweight bread
• Being a Christian
• Evading taxes
• Murder
• Hooliganism
• Killing the emperor
• Arson
• Being a poor landlord
• Not keeping the street uotside your house tidy
• Patricide (Killing your father)

Could be put to death for; Arson, attacking the emperor, robbing temples, stealing farm animals.

Minor crime; Whipping, repaying the cost of goods, confiscation of property.

Nobles; Could be sentenced to death for serious crimes but could go into excile and avoid excecution.

Legionaires; Those who ran away from battle faced excution and 1 in every 10 men from the legions were exceuted.

Slaves; All the slaves in a household were crucified if one of them tried to kill their master they could give evidence at a trial but only if they were toutured first.

PUNISHMENTS:

• Repaying cost of goods
• Property Confirsaction
• Exile
• Amputating limbs
• Excecution
• Gladiators
• Fed to beasts
• Burnt alive
• Thrown into a river in a bag of snakes (Patricide)
• Burnt alive
• Rolled of a cliff
• Cruxifiction
• Drinking moltern lead

WHY USE THESE METHODS?:

• Excecutions are cheap
• Act…