Causes Flashcards
What were lives like in Middle Ages?
Short, hard, brutal lives
Main cause of crime Middle Ages
Poverty
Disease Middle Ages
Great famine
Black Death
People had to do the work to replace the high death rate.
Taxation Middle Ages
High taxes lead to the peasants revolt
Warfare Middle Ages
Norman conquest
War of the roses
Families lost providers and taxes were high to pay for war
Middle Ages murders
20% of crimes was manslaughter or murder
Early modern crime main cause
Poverty, continuation from middle ages
Population early modern
Population doubled which led to demand for food, housing and work.
Causes of poverty early modern
Rising inflation
Bad harvests
Vagrancy early modern
Many people left home to look for work
Vagrancy increased
Changes in religion early modern
Failing to swear allegiance to each monarchs religious changes was a crime
Treason and heresy were common from Henry VIII
2 types of vagabond
Bare top trickster
Hooker
Dissolution of monasteries early modern
The dissolution left many people unemployed
Also ended the help that the monasteries provided to the poor
Poverty industrial
Poverty continued to be a main cause of crime
Population increase industrial
Areas became overcrowded and disease spread
Urbanisation industrial
Poor living and working conditions led to protests
Changes in trade industrial
Led to highway robbery
Government taxes industrial
Governments began to heavily tax items, this led to smuggling
Swing riots industrial
agricultural labourers resorted to machine breaking and rioting in the south-east of England.
Lollards Middle Ages
Wanted to read the bible in English
Luddites industrial
Opposed use of cost saving machines
Highway robbery industrial
Isolated roads were targeted
Horses and guns were easy to access
New methods of transport made it easier
Smuggling industrial
Smuggled goods were cheaper so they became popular
British coastlines were unguarded
Car crimes modern
Cars are used for crimes
Allow criminals to escape the scene
Can be sold for profit
Drink driving, speeding
Computer crime modern
Provides criminals new methods of crimes
Mass ownership has led to instant contact
Fraud, cyber bullying
Drug crime modern
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
Violence modern
Violence has increased
Alcohol and drugs has increased football hooliganism
Knife crime is linked to juvenile gangs
Media glamorises violent crime
Terrorism modern
Increase in violence to achieve a political objective
Terrorism in Northern Ireland, London bombings
