Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Medieval Crime and Punishment
- Crime and Criminals
- Petty Crimes
- Theft under 12d
- Debt
- Assult (Minor)
- Moral Crimes
- Adultery
- Not going to church
- Blasphemy
- Swearing in the name of god
- Changes
- New Crimes
- Vagrancy (after black death)
- Scolding
- Wars of the Roses (1455-1483)
- Civil war
- Powerful nobles have private armies=fights
- Black death (1348)
- Approx half population died
- Society breaks down- theft
- Serious crime/felonies
- Murder/homicide
- Arson
- Treason
- Larceny (Theft)
- Over 12d (approx 3 weeks wages)
- Punishments
- Fines
- Collected fines went to:Sheriff/Lord/King
- Villages fined for not raising the hue and cry
- Public humiliation
- Ducking stool
- Public confession
- Stocks/pillary
- Death
- Being burned alive
- Petty treason
- Hung, drawn and quartered
- Imprisonment
- Rich people could pay to be kept in comfort
- Had to pay for food/bedding etc
- Used to hold: those awaiting trial, those who refused to plead and people in debt
- To avoid trial:
- Run-Join outlaw gang
- Be pregnant
- Claim sanctury
- 'abjure the realm'
- Become kings approver
- Join kings army (If there is a war on as no standing army)
- Refuse to plead
- Bribe the jury/pay king money
- Claim benefit of the clergy
- Only open to members of clergy but people pretend to be(remember passage)