Dates

Question 1

When did pentonville open

Answer 1

1842

Question 2

When was the gaols act (prison reform)

Answer 2

1823

Question 3

When did public execution end

Answer 3

1868

Question 4

When was transportation to Australia

Answer 4

1788 - 1868

Question 5

When did open prisons start

Answer 5

1933

Question 6

When was probation introduced

Answer 6

1907

Question 7

When was the bloody code

Answer 7

Late 1600’s - early 1700’s

Question 8

When did transportation to North America start

Answer 8

1660’s

Question 9

When did houses of corrections open

Answer 9

The late 1500’s

Question 10

When we’re justices of the peace introduced

Answer 10

1327

Question 11

When did trial by ordeal end

Answer 11

1215

Question 12

When was 999 set up

Answer 12

1937

Question 13

When was DNA first used as evidence

Answer 13

1988

Question 14

When were the bow street runners introduced

Answer 14

1748

Question 15

When were the metropolitan police introduced

Answer 15

1829

Question 16

When was the detective unit first set up

Answer 16

1842

Question 17

When was the Habeas Corpus act (preventing people from being held indefinitely)

Answer 17

1679

Question 18

When were coroners introduced

Answer 18

1194

Question 19

When was the statute of labourers act

Answer 19

1351

Question 20

When was the witchcraft act

Answer 20

1542 (repealed but restored in 1563)

Question 21

When were the Tolpuddle matyrs sentenced

Answer 21

1834

Question 22

When did heresy become a crime

Answer 22

1401

Question 23

When was the Mathew Hopkins witch hunts

Answer 23

1645 - 47

Question 24

When was Dick Turpin (famous highway robber) executed

Answer 24

1739

Question 25

When was the death penalty abolised

Answer 25

1965