Crime and Punishment Key Words

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Capital Crime
A crime punishable by death. Number greatly increaced in the Bloody Code which was abolished in 1969
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Capital Punishment
The death penalty usually by hanging. Burning at the staik for heresy
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Corpral Punishment
Punishment that inflicts pain and usually carried out in public. Whipping and Flogging used in the early modern period.
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Bloody Code
The time period when more crimes where capital. The death penalty was given for a large range of crimes
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Criminal Code
A more formal name for the bloody code when it was reformed in 1820
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Industrialisation
The move form manual labour to machined goods. Growth of factories in towns and cities and a grater use of machines in agriculture. Caused riots as people where loosing there jobs.
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Urbanisation
The growth of towns and cities due to development in factories. People moved to cities to find work so houses where build quickly resulting in cramped dirty conditions and an increace in crime.
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Rookeries
Arias in industrial cities where crime was common
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Criminal Class
People who lived in rooleries and classified into over 100 types of criminal
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Abolition
The end of something. E.g. abolition of capital punishment means no more capital punishment
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Dark Figure
The amount of crime that has not been reported. over time it has reduced as technology has improved
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Charlies
Group of night watchmen that where established in the reign of king Charles 2.
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Tudor Period
1485-1603
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Industrial Period
1700-1900
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Modern Period
1900 onwards
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Forensic Science
The use of forensic evidence when specialists use evidence at the scene
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Deterrent
A punishment to make people afraid to commit the crime
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Retribution
A punishment that makes the criminal suffer for there crime
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Demobilised
When soldures leave the army. This caused a high amount of vagrency in the Early Modern Period
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Puritan
Someone who has strict Protestant Beliefs. England had a protestant ruler after the civil war (1649-1660)
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Heretic
Someone who commits heresy. going againsed the church
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Treason
Going againsed the government or monarchy
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Vagrant
Someone wo disturbes other people by being homeless
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Capital Punishment

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The death penalty usually by hanging. Burning at the staik for heresy

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Corpral Punishment

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Bloody Code

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Criminal Code

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