Zusammenfassung der Ressource
History 1500-1700
- Crimes
- Witchcraft
- Vagabonds
- Treason
- Heresy
- Begging
- Theft
- Highway robbery
- Poaching
- Law enforcment
- Witch hunts
- Justices of peace
- Coroners
- Town constables
- Night Watchmen
- Printing
- Punishments
- Transportation
- Positive
- State get rid of criminals
- Free labour
- Opertunity to start a new life
after 7 years
- Not executed
- Negatives
- Lots of money needed
- Hard Labour that often killed
- All criminals in
one place
- Capital punishment
- Prison
- Branding
- Whipping
- Hung drawn and quatered
- Bloody code
- The Bloody code was where hundreds of small
crimes were punishable by death
- why did they stop it
- Reformers were
arguing against it
- The crowds were often drunk
and disorderly
- It was a fun event for most
spectators and not a detterent
- sometimes the crowed mocked
the law and treated the criminal
as a hero
- The executions didn't appear to
reduce crime
- Vagabonds
- The crime was the crime of begging in area
that you weren't from
- Why Vagabonds were
treated as criminal
- The media exagerated the dangers
of Vagabonds
- Rising population led to less
houses and less jobs
- The Vagrancy act made begging illegal in a
town you wern't born in