Topic 1: Causes Of Crime

Question 1

medieval Era:
What type of lives did people in the Middle Ages live?

Answer 1

Short, hard and brutal

Question 2

medieval Era:
What were the 4 Main causes of poverty?

Answer 2

Famine, poverty, high taxation and warfare.

Question 3

Medieval Era:
What was the famine that people experienced?

Answer 3

The Great Famine of 1315

Question 4

medieval Era:
Why did disease create poverty and a demand for higher wages?

Answer 4

People had to do the work to replace the high death rate eg. Black Death

Question 5

medieval Era:
What rebellion did high taxation lead to?

Answer 5

Peasants Revolt 1381

Question 6

medieval Era:
Why did warfare lead to poverty?

Answer 6

As ordinary men fought, families lost their providers and taxes were high to pay for these wars.

Question 7

medieval Era:
What did poverty lead to?

Answer 7

Theft, rebellion and an increase in violent crimes due to access of dangerous weapons and farming tools.

Question 8

medieval Era:
What percentage of crimes were linked to death (murder/ manslaughter)?

Answer 8

20%

Question 9

Early Modern Era:
What were the 4 main causes of poverty?

Answer 9

Population increase, rising inflation, bad harvests, sheep farming

Question 10

Early Modern Era:
How did sheep farming lead to poverty therefore leading to crime?

Answer 10

Wealthy landowners didn’t rent their land to tenant farmers.
So tenant farmers didn’t get an income, since they used this land to grow and harvest crops for a living.
So tenant farmers moved to the city, where population rose and crime increased.

Question 11

Early Modern Era:
What increased because many people started to leave their homes to find work?

Answer 11

Vagrancy - wandering beggars

Question 12

Early Modern Era:
What was the huge change, to do with religion, leading to crime?

Answer 12

The reformation of the church.
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, by Henry VIII
Henry VIII linked many things to treason, so many were accused.
Many people now didn’t have any charity money from the monasteries to support them, so thousands became poor.

Question 13

Industrial Era:
What were the main causes of crime?

Answer 13

Poverty
Population increase - demand for jobs, houses etc
Urbanisation - poor living and working conditions led to protests.
Changes in trade - led to highway robbery
Government taxes on items - led to smuggling

Question 14

20th/21st century:
What are the main causes of crime?

Answer 14

Mass production of cars.
Rise of the computer, internet and in the 21st century - phones.
Increase in violence to achieve political objectives (terrorism).
Availability of drugs and alcohol - increased violence at football matches 1970s - hooliganism.
Drug addiction - dependency and gangs
Rise in gang culture, especially in London - caused by poverty and breakdown of traditional families.