Causes

Question 1

What were lives like in Middle Ages?

Answer 1

Short, hard, brutal lives

Question 2

Main cause of crime Middle Ages

Answer 2

Poverty

Question 3

Disease Middle Ages

Answer 3

Great famine
Black Death
People had to do the work to replace the high death rate.

Question 4

Taxation Middle Ages

Answer 4

High taxes lead to the peasants revolt

Question 5

Warfare Middle Ages

Answer 5

Norman conquest
War of the roses
Families lost providers and taxes were high to pay for war

Question 6

Middle Ages murders

Answer 6

20% of crimes was manslaughter or murder

Question 7

Early modern crime main cause

Answer 7

Poverty, continuation from middle ages

Question 8

Population early modern

Answer 8

Population doubled which led to demand for food, housing and work.

Question 9

Causes of poverty early modern

Answer 9

Rising inflation
Bad harvests

Question 10

Vagrancy early modern

Answer 10

Many people left home to look for work
Vagrancy increased

Question 11

Changes in religion early modern

Answer 11

Failing to swear allegiance to each monarchs religious changes was a crime
Treason and heresy were common from Henry VIII

Question 12

2 types of vagabond

Answer 12

Bare top trickster
Hooker

Question 13

Dissolution of monasteries early modern

Answer 13

The dissolution left many people unemployed
Also ended the help that the monasteries provided to the poor

Question 14

Poverty industrial

Answer 14

Poverty continued to be a main cause of crime

Question 15

Population increase industrial

Answer 15

Areas became overcrowded and disease spread

Question 16

Urbanisation industrial

Answer 16

Poor living and working conditions led to protests

Question 17

Changes in trade industrial

Answer 17

Led to highway robbery

Question 18

Government taxes industrial

Answer 18

Governments began to heavily tax items, this led to smuggling

Question 19

Swing riots industrial

Answer 19

agricultural labourers resorted to machine breaking and rioting in the south-east of England.

Question 20

Lollards Middle Ages

Answer 20

Wanted to read the bible in English

Question 21

Luddites industrial

Answer 21

Opposed use of cost saving machines

Question 22

Highway robbery industrial

Answer 22

Isolated roads were targeted
Horses and guns were easy to access
New methods of transport made it easier

Question 23

Smuggling industrial

Answer 23

Smuggled goods were cheaper so they became popular
British coastlines were unguarded

Question 24

Car crimes modern

Answer 24

Cars are used for crimes
Allow criminals to escape the scene
Can be sold for profit
Drink driving, speeding

Question 25

Computer crime modern

Answer 25

Provides criminals new methods of crimes
Mass ownership has led to instant contact
Fraud, cyber bullying

Question 26

Drug crime modern

Answer 26

Drugs being criminalised has led to an increase in drug crime
Trafficking can create a large amount of money
Gang rivalry can lead to violence
Addiction can cause people to commit other crimes

Question 27

Violence modern

Answer 27

Violence has increased
Alcohol and drugs has increased football hooliganism
Knife crime is linked to juvenile gangs
Media glamorises violent crime

Question 28

Terrorism modern

Answer 28

Increase in violence to achieve a political objective
Terrorism in Northern Ireland, London bombings