EARLY MODERN UNDERSTANDINGS OF CRIME

Question 1

What legal system of law did Europe use?

Answer 1

Inquisitorial

Question 2

what legal system of law did England use?

Answer 2

adversarial

Question 3

explain inquisitorial system in past

Answer 3

trials were not public, guilt or innocence was determined through interrogation, 2 direct eye-witnesses or confession required to find someone guilty

Question 4

explain adversarial system in past

Answer 4

trials were public, torture was largely unnecessary, juries were used more for freedom of evaluating evidence

Question 5

what is the constituto carolina?

Answer 5

a procedure for discovering guilt or innocence in criminal cases by means of official inquest

Question 6

what offences carried the death penalty (Carolina)

Answer 6

murder, highway robbery, counterfeiting, witchcraft, rape and abortion

Question 7

what executions were used (Carolina)

Answer 7

beheading, the gibbet, drowning, breaking on wheel, burning, buried alive, boiling in oil, quartering

Question 8

what punishments were used (bloody code)

Answer 8

hanging at tyburn, hanging in chains, burning at stake, quartering, beheading, incarceration, whipping , the pillory, branding, fines

Question 9

what was the symbolic significance of punishments?

Answer 9

rituals gave punishment legitimacy, a sacrifice of offender purified society

Question 10

what is the bloody code? and when?

Answer 10

imposed the death penalty for over two hundred, often petty, offences. Its aim was deterrence. 1723