1900-present

Question 1

when was the last massive crime increase

Answer 1

1900

Question 2

how many more crimes are there than 1900

Answer 2

thousands more

Question 3

reason that crime increased

Answer 3

invention of motor car

Question 4

when did racial and sexual discrimination become crimes

Answer 4

1960/70s

Question 5

what year was the new law on hate crime

Answer 5

2007 towards jews and muslims since 9/11

Question 6

what century were drugs made illegal

Answer 6

20th century

Question 7

what is a result of the growing drug problem

Answer 7

the growth in internation transport

Question 8

when were women first introduced as police officers

Answer 8

1920s

Question 9

when and what was the neighbourhood watch

Answer 9

1982 members of local communities being encourange to help reduce crime in their areas

Question 10

when did neigbourhood watch become a national network

Answer 10

2007

Question 11

When was pointless hard labour abolished

Answer 11

1902

Question 12

when did uniforms, headshaving and solitary confinement end

Answer 12

1922

Question 13

since ww2 what happened to prisons

Answer 13

sentences have got longer and more crimes have gained a custodial sentence

Question 14

in the 19th century how were children treated like in the penal system

Answer 14

like adults

Question 15

when did this change

Answer 15

with the introduction of borstals (strict boarding schools) in 1902 and then approved centres from 1932

Question 16

when and what is attendence centres

Answer 16

1948 non custodial centres for 10-21 year olds

Question 17

when and why were borstals abolished

Answer 17

1982 as the public mood turned towards harsher and stricter punishments

Question 18

what do we now have for children

Answer 18

youth courts, tagging and parental involvment (custodial sentences are seen as last resort)

Question 19

what is conscription

Answer 19

to make people join the army

Question 20

how many people refused to the alternative war work

Answer 20

6000 people and became absolutists (refusing to help in any way)

Question 21

what happened to the absolutists

Answer 21

sent to prison and given hard labour(in silent system prisons) 73 died

Question 22

how many peoople registered as COs in WW1 and WW2

Answer 22

WW1- 16,000 people

WW2- 60,000 people

Question 23

what was the biggest change to the penal system in the 20th century

Answer 23

abolition of capital punishment

Question 24

when and what was the only legal punishment for killing a police officer

Answer 24

by 1957 hanging

Question 25

what three cases led to the mood change of punishments

Answer 25

timothy evans
ruth ellis
Derek Bentley

Question 26

how old was derek bentley and how smart was he

Answer 26

19 and he had low iQ

Question 27

who was he with

Answer 27

Christopher Craig (16) who shot a police officer during a robbery

Question 28

where and when was the robbery

Answer 28

a croyden warehouse in november 1952

Question 29

what did the police convict Bentley said to Craig

Answer 29

let him have it

Question 30

why was hanging stopped in 1965

Answer 30

because the media made it look like the law was cruel and brutal

Question 31

when was hanging abolished for good

Answer 31

1969