Changes In Crime And Punishment - Causes Of Crime Flashcards
What were examples of poverty (medieval era) (6)?
Great Famine 1315-1317
Black Death 1340s
Poll Tax 1370s
1381 Peasants’ Revolt
Demands to pay for wars e.g Norman Conquest after 1066
War of Roses 1455 to 1485
When were the causes of poverty continuous up until?
Up to the early nineteenth century
What were other causes of crime in the medieval era?
Poverty - theft of property/ revolts/ rebellions
Trade and business - highway robbery
Access to dangerous weapons and farming tools - violent crimes (20% of all crimes between 1300 and 1348 were murder or manslaughter)
Famine - Great Famine of 1315-17 killed 10% of the population and followed poor harvest
Disease - Black Death of 1340s
Warfare
High tax such as the poll tax
What percentage of crimes from 1300 - 1348 were murder or manslaughter in the medieval era?
20
Why was there rise in poverty in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
The population of England and Wales doubled between 1500 and 1600 - more demand for food, clothing, housing and work
Rising inflation - wages worth less
Bad harvests - steep rise in food prices
Switched to keeping sheep - less need for labourers
All monasteries closed - had taken care of the desperate
Changes in the cloth industry
Costly foreign wars
What was the problem of vagrancy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
Many people left homes in the countryside to look for work in neighbouring towns
Forced into begging for food and money
Often resorted to petty stealing and fraud
The crime of being a wandering beggar
What is heresy?
Holding a belief that is different to those of the accepted religion
Serious crime in medieval times
Increases in the sixteenth century
Religion was a fundamental part of life and the Tudor monarchs changed the religion
What did Hersey become part of?
Treason
Betraying one’s country or monarch by not following the official religion of the country
What was smuggling and what time period was it specific to?
Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Major crime
Secret trade in goods to avoid paying custom duties
No income tax so had to raise money from customs and excise duties on tea, chocolate, wine, spirits, salt, leather, soap
How much tax did tea have?
70 percent
People were willing to buy much cheaper smuggled goods
What was highway robbery and what time period was it specific to?
Eighteenth and nineteenth century
Changes to trade and business caused a rise in highway robbery
Increase in travel
Improvements to turnpike roads
Limiting banking facilities so money was carried by road
Handguns
Heaths and commons around London due to prosperity
What was urbanisation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
Forced people to move to towns for work
More opportunities to commit crime
Population of Britain rose from 16 million in 1800 to 42 million in 1900
Poverty caused by unemployment after the Napoleonic War ended in 1815
Poor living and working conditions
What were 5 protests in the industrial era?
Luddism
Peterloo Massacre
Swing Riots
Rebecca Riots
Chartism
What was Luddism?
1812 - 1813 Industrial towns in the Midlands and northern England - weavers protested about machines taking their jobs
What was the Peterloo massacre?
1819 Manchester - a mass meeting to demand electoral reform
