Punishment Key Dates 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryCrime and punishment through time (OCR History A)GCSEWJEC Created by: JessicaCreated on: 14-05-13 20:34 First Bridewell built (Bridewell Palace, London) Late 1500s 1 of 35 Debtors Prisons 16th century 2 of 35 Transportation first introduced to Australia 1780s 3 of 35 First fleet to set sail to Australia May 1787 4 of 35 The Reform of the Criminal Code 1823 5 of 35 Romilly got a law passed to abolish the death sentence for pickpocketing 1808 6 of 35 Sir Robert Peel began to argue in parliament that savage punishment was not the answer to crime 1820 7 of 35 Peel reduced the number of crimes for which a person can be hanged from over 200 to about 5 1822-1840 8 of 35 The only crimes for which hanging remained were murder, treason, piracy with violence, burning down a weapons store or dockyard 1841 9 of 35 Public hanging finished completely 1868 10 of 35 The reform of the prison system 19th century 11 of 35 John Howard became appointed High Sheriff of Bedford 1773 12 of 35 'The State of Prisons in England and Wales' by John Howard 1777 13 of 35 John Howard made suggestments for improving prisons before a parliamentary committee 1773 14 of 35 John Howard dies of Typhus 1790 15 of 35 'Thoughts on the Alarming Progress of Gaol Fever' by George O. Paul 1784 16 of 35 Gloucester Act (led by George O. Paul) 1785 17 of 35 Elizabeth Fry visited Newgate Prison 1813 18 of 35 Reformers in parliament realised the terrible conditions in prisons 1820s and 1830s 19 of 35 Jail Act (proposed by the Home Secretary Robert Peel) 1823 20 of 35 Prison Act that introduced the Seperate System 1839 21 of 35 Pentonville Prison opened as a model 'seperate prison' 1842 (by 1850 there were 50 others using the seperate system) 22 of 35 Seperate system dropped By the end of the 19th century 23 of 35 Most prisons began to try and enforce silence 1830s - 1850s 24 of 35 The Prison Act associated with the Silent System 1865 25 of 35 Derek Bentley hung 28th January 1953 26 of 35 Ruth Ellis hung 13th July 1955 27 of 35 Timothy Evans hung March 1930 28 of 35 Murder Abolition of the Death Penalty Act made life imprisonment and alternative to hanging 1965 29 of 35 Murder Abolition of the Death Penalty Act made permanent 1968 30 of 35 Juvenile Courts introduced 1908 31 of 35 First Borstal opened (Borstal Prison, Kent) 1902 32 of 35 Approved schools for offenders under 15 started 1932 33 of 35 Borstals closed down and replaced by Youth Detention Centres 1982 34 of 35 Prison overcrowding became a serious problem 1980s 35 of 35
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