Crime Important Dates

Question 0

Mary Bell

Answer 0

1967

Question 1

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Answer 1

1989

Question 2

Jade Matthews

Answer 2

1996

Question 3

Borstals abolished

Answer 3

1982

Youth custody, detention centres, secure units

Question 4

Children seen as property of parents

Answer 4

Beginning of the 1800s

Ann Martin blinded 3 children for sympathy whilst begging

Question 5

Child could be convicted of over 200 crimes and treated as an adult in the eyes of the law yet very little protection from the law

Answer 5

As late as 1780

Question 6

Hangings commonplace, confessions published.

Answer 6

Early 1800s

Question 7

Children begun to see as special cases.

Concern for child crime = shift in approach (reform over punishment)

Answer 7

Victorian era

1837-1901

Question 8

Juvenile Offenders Act

Answer 8

1847

Children tried in separate courts. Kept away from hardened criminals who would have a bad influence.

Question 9

Reformatory School Act

Answer 9

1854

Alternative to prisons, still strict.
Ragged schools, industrial schools (teaching work ethics and appreciation for arts)

Macro approach catching children who have not yet fallen into crime, prevention.

Question 10

Transportation to Austrailia

Answer 10

Late 1800s

Terrible conditions and a response to petty crime

Question 11

Punishment of hard labour

Answer 11

1870s

Attitudes changing: Stephenson, 12 and Fisher, 13 reading “wrong sort of books”

Question 12

Children no longer sent to adult prisons

Answer 12

1899

Question 13

Borstals introduced

Answer 13

1902

-trying to create desired members of society not a softening of attitude

Question 14

Child and Young Persons Act

Answer 14

1933

Emphasis on welfare, abolished death penalty for children under 8. Raised age of criminal responsibility to 8.