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Question 1

continuity in crime

Answer 1

• smuggling
• poaching
• highway robbery (though heavily developed on)

Question 2

1723 black act

Answer 2

established bloody code imposed the death penalty for over two hundred, often petty, offences.

Question 3

how did court change due to the bloody code

Answer 3

Many juries practised ‘pious perjury’, often finding people not guilty or reducing the amount stolen to avoid the crime being a capital offence.

Question 4

when was the waltham black act

Answer 4

1723

Question 5

1example of a capital punishment