Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment.

Changes in society in the Early Modern period (1500s to 1700s)
The Bloody Code: why did the authorities bring it in?
The treatment of vagrants and vagabonds.
Smuggling and why it was hard to control.
Poaching: was it a crime?
Highwaymen: why was there an increase in highway robbery and then a decline?
Transportation

Changes in society brought about by the Industrial Revolution (1750s to 1900s).
Prison reform: John Howard's 1777 report and Elizabeth Fry. The new prisons.
Peel and the start of the Metropolitan Police 1829.
Changes in policing. People's attitudes to the police.
Changing attitudes to crime and punishment.

Protest

Kett's Rebellion 1549

Links

Main points (NOT the two 20th century slides)

Key ideas (NOT the 20th century slide)

Much more detailed notes (Sections C and D ONLY - for advanced students only)