Early Modern

Question 1

New Crimes (6)

Answer 1

• Vagrancy
  -Highway Robbery
  -Smuggling
  -Poaching
  -Moral Crimes
  -Witchcraft

Question 2

Law Enforcement

Answer 2

• Thief Takers
  -JPs had more power
  -Habeas Corpus
  -Lawyers
  -Paid Watchmen 1660
  -Essentially everyhing from medieval age has stayed the same

Question 3

Punishments

Answer 3

• Transportation
• Bridewell
• Bloody Code.

Question 4

What was Habeus Corpus

Answer 4

• passed in 1679
• it stopped authorities from keeping a person detained for an indefinite period of time

Question 5

Causes of Early Modern Crime

Answer 5

• Taxes - Smuggling
  -Travel and increased wealth and the fact guns were easier to obtain, horses cheaper, no patrolling officers and ex soldiers turned to crime when their careers ended (Highway Robbery)
  -Growth in puritans
• Elderly and single women being blamed as they were most vulnerable.

Question 6

Thief Takers

Answer 6

• Johnathon WIlde
• Tracked down criminals in order to collect a reward
• More often than not they were corrupt and extorted money, even luring innocent people into committing crimes.

Question 7

Bloody Code - What was it and why was it possibly introduced.

Answer 7

• increase in executions served as a deterrent due to a perceived increase in crime- 200 crimes punishable by execution.
  -Growing power of MPs to protect their property from criminals.