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1725
Jonathan Wild's Execution
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1749
Bow street Runners founded
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Year 1000
Tithings were used to give people joint responsibility
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1777
John Howard, published 'The State of the Prisons in England and Wales'
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1842
Pentonville prison built
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1857
Hulks(Prison Ships) no longer used.
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1868
Public execution endded
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1878
Government took control of all prisons
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1957
Law limiting the death penalty sentence to five types of murder
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1965
5 year suspention of death penalty
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1969
Law to stop Capital Punishment
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1999
Human Right Act, got rid of all forms of capital punishment
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1829
Metropolitan Police
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18th Century Law enforcemment
Watchmen, Constables, who were unpaid and easily bribed .
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12th Century
Benefit of the clergy
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1605
Guy Fawkes
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1856
Became Compulsory for every town and county to have their own police force
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1542
The first law was passed saying that witchcraft was a crime
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1645
The year when Matthew Hopkins, witch-finder, accused record numbers of people of Witchcraft in Essex
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1717
The last trial for Witchcraft
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1736
The last law saying that witchcraft was a crime repealed
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Bow street Runners founded

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1749

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Tithings were used to give people joint responsibility

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John Howard, published 'The State of the Prisons in England and Wales'

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Pentonville prison built

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