guide through june 2015 exam - crime and punishment

June 2015 crime and punishment exam

https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/GCSE/History/2009/Exam-materials/5HB01_1B_que_20150601.pdf (Enclavar)

Q1

1)Source A: A record of payment made to the Bow Street Runners in 1761. Sir John Fielding paid three men for their work on several nights. They were part of the horse patrol on the roads leading to this town, trying to catch a highwayman. They also distributed small ‘Wanted’ posters containing a descriptionof the highwayman and his horseSource B: A newspaper report, published in 2013, about a police appeal for information. An appeal was broadcast on the BBC Crimewatch television programme. The police asked for information about a murder that took place 20 years before. The Detective Chief Inspector said that after the appeal they had many telephone calls but two were very significant. One caller suggested a possible eyewitness to the attack. The other caller gave very good background information about suspects already known to the police.

.1.What do Sources A and B show about changes in the way police investigate crime? Explain your answer, using Sources A and B and your own knowledge. (8)

How to answer this: structure

Analysis. Candidate makes an inference about the nature or extent of change based on the explicit use of both sources and supported from own knowledge of the historical context. e.g. Explains the change from the methods used by Bow St Horse Patrol in Source A (distributing ‘Wanted’ posters and patrolling the area in the hope of catching the highwayman) to police use of modern technology in B to make a nationwide appeal long after the crime was committed and to cross reference the information received; Uses own knowledge to show the change from localised bodies such as the Bow St Runners and Horse Patrol to modern police services which coordinate on a national scale or to show that it was difficult to prove a highwayman’s crimes unless stolen goods were found whereas modern technology can sometimes prove guilt long afterwards through the identification of DNA on clothes or weapons.