Week Two - Public Questioning

Question 1

What was Public Questioning?

Answer 1

A call for the reform of punishment, a less severe ‘penal code’ and a more humane and rational system of punishment

Question 2

What happened by the late 18th Century?

Answer 2

By the late 18th Century, public execution as a spectacle was being questioned

Question 3

What did Gattrell, 1994 say about the retreat from hanging?

Answer 3

“There has been no greater nor more sudden revolution in English penal history than the retreat from hanging in the 1830’s”

Question 4

What had happened by the middle of the 19th Century?

Answer 4

By the middle of the 19th Century imprisonment had become the major way of dealing with adult offenders