Crime and Punishment Dates

Question 1

When did the Normans arrive in England?

Answer 1

1066

Question 2

When were royal courts established?

Answer 2

1163

Question 3

When was the coroners established?

Answer 3

1194

Question 4

When were JPs established

Answer 4

1361 (after knights)

Question 5

When was trial by ordeal and combat abolished?

Answer 5

1215

Question 6

When was the parish Constable established?

Answer 6

1285

Question 7

When was the early modern civil war?

Answer 7

1642 - 1649

Question 8

When was it illegal to take food from privately owned enclosures?

Answer 8

1671 Game Act

Question 9

When was benefit of the clergy nerfed?

Answer 9

1576

Question 10

When was church sanctuary abolished

Answer 10

1623

Question 11

When was Habeaus Corpus Act done?

Answer 11

1576

Question 12

When was witchcraft illegal?

Answer 12

1542

Question 13

What were the vagrancy acts?

Answer 13

1547 - 1550 - branded with V + 2 yr slavery, roffence mean death or life slavery

1597 - hole burnt in earlobe, sent to exile or executed if they didn’t change

1601 - poor laws

Question 14

When were houses of correction introduced?

Answer 14

1576

Question 15

When was witchcraft abolished?

Answer 15

1736

Question 16

When was Highway robbery illegal?

Answer 16

1772

Question 17

What were the important dates for the Bow Street Runners?

Answer 17

Established 1749
Collected fees in 1754
Government funded in 1785

Question 18

When was met police established?

Answer 18

1829

Question 19

When was transportation introduced?

Answer 19

1660s

Question 20

When was the gaols act?

Answer 20

1923

Question 21

When was black act?

Answer 21

1723 - 1823

Question 22

What year were they Toldpuddle Martyrs trialed?

Answer 22

1834

Question 23

What made it illegal to refuse jobs for race?

Answer 23

1968 Race Relations Act

Question 24

When was hate crime stopped?

Answer 24

2003 Criminal Justice Act

Question 25

Modern Law Enforcement dates?

Answer 25

1901 - fingerprints + blood samples
1930s - 2 way radio
1937 - 999 number
Police National Computer - 1974
DNA first used as evidence - 1988

Question 26

Police force dates

Answer 26

1920 - women
1947 - 14 weeks training for new recruits
1982 - neighbourhood watch

Question 27

Changes in prison dates

Answer 27

Separate system abolished 1902
1922 - solitary condiment ended
Open prisons in 1933

Question 28

Non-custodial alternatives to prison

Answer 28

Probation - 1907
Fines - 1914
Parole + suspended sentence - 1967
Electronic tagging - after 1990s

Question 29

Reformation of Young Offenders punishments

Answer 29

1902 - borstals
1932 -1959 - approved schools
1948 attendance centres
1982 - end of borstals
1982 - youth detention centres

Question 30

When was blood code abolished?

Answer 30

1868

Question 31

Duration of bloody code

Answer 31

1723 - 1868

Question 32

When did government abolish death for murder (with exceptions)?

Answer 32

1957

Question 33

When was United Nations declaration of human rights?

Answer 33

1948

Question 34

Derek Bentley case

Answer 34

1952 - hung a year later
Pardoned in 1998

Question 35

Timothy Evans case

Answer 35

1950 - hung
1966 pardoned