Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Roman Crime and Punishment
- Crimes
- theft
- selling underweight bread
- robbery
- street violence
- riots
- serious crimes
- rebellion
- treason
- plotting against the Emperor
- being a Christian
- Law Enforcements
- no Police force
- Provincial Governor
- dealt with important legal cases
- Magistrates
- dealt with minor cases in court
- Roman legions (army)
- controlled locals
- victims
- had to find and catch suspect
- took suspect to local centurion
- decided if the case should
be tried
- Punishments
- depended on your position in society
- see hierarchical
- nobles sent into exile
- depended on whether you were male of female
- see patriarchal
- flogging
- fines
- amputation of limbs
- execution
- cricifixion
- sewn into a sack of snakes
- forced to become a gladiator
- Key terms
- hierarchical
- A society where some people
are more important than
others, usually due to money
and power.
- partriarchal
- A society run by men
- Was the system fair?
- yes
- right to fair trial
- legal system not based on religion
- laws written down
- 12 Tablets of Rome
- innocent until proven guilty
- no
- no law enforcement
- harsher punishments for slaves and women
- hierarchical and patriarchal
- deterrent
- no Police Force