Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Roman Crime and Punishment
- Crimes
- Rebellion - Queen Boudicca
- Religious crimes - e.g. being a Christian
- Riots at games or chariot races
- Murder/Arson/Violent crime
- Selling underweight bread
- Burglaries and theft (stealing clothes from baths)
- Law enforcement
- No police force
- Victims collect evidence and take suspect to court
- Provincial governor
- Roman law written down - 12 tablets of Rome
- Right to a fair trial and innocent until proven guilty
- Punishments
- Flogging, beatings, fines for minor crimes
- Amputation of limbs for major crimes
- Execution for serious crimes
- Crucifixion for rebellion
- Forced to become a gladiator
- Tied in sack with lives snakes and thrown in river for killing father
- Features of Roman society
- Patriarchal
- Hierarchical
- Inequality
- Centralised