Crime, Punishment and Protest
 

Crime, punishment and protest is a study of a change across time. A lot of the questions  which you get will expect you to note changes in types of crime, punishment, attitudes of those in authority to certain people and crimes, the response of those in authority. You will be asked for your opinion and this is a subject about which everyone seems to have an opinion - so please take care to remember that your examiner wants opinion based upon fact - with lots of factual history in it. TAKE CARE it is easy to waffle but you will not get marks for it.

Types of Crime

· Crimes against the person e.g. murder, rape, assault, armed robbery

· Crimes against property e.g. theft, robbery, burglary, poaching, smuggling,       embezzlement, vandalism

· Crimes of protest against authority e.g. heresy, treason, strikes, sit-down protests, conspiracy, terrorism

· throughout history there have always been five or ten times more crimes committed     against property than against the person. Crimes of protest are a very small of all crimes committed.

· Need - the person is too poor to buy what they need / want

· Gain - the person intends to sell the item stolen

· Impulse - the person acts on the spur of the moment, with no previous plan

· Influences - the person is under the influence of drugs, alcohol, or bad friends, or          steals to get money to buy drugs or alcohol.

· Belief - the person believes that the law is wrong

This is only a selection : prison, mutilation, prison with hard labour, pillory, stocks, compensation to the victim, execution, life imprisonment, community service, set free, transportation

· Deterrence - it will stop other doing the same thing

· Removal - it protects the public by removing the criminal

· Punishment - the criminal has a hard time, loses personal freedom,etc.

· Compensation - the victim or society is paid back for the trouble that they suffered from the criminal

· Reform - the criminal changes his/her ways and will not commit and more crimes

· Public Shame - the punishment is carried out in public so as to shame the offender.

The format of your exam will be the same as you sample papers. You will have a set of questions which are accompanied by sources - they are knowledge based questions and      you HAVE to answer all of them.

These questions are based on important developments and turning points in the history          of crime, punishment and protest in England from 1450.
e.g. in your sample paper these look at poaching, smuggling, computer crime, changes in crimes committed past and present.
 
The Core is as follows :

1450-1750

· Crime and Punishment in the late middle ages

· Crimes against the individual and property, poaching, highwaymen, Dick Turpin,      Jonathan Wild, Smuggling

· Local law enforcement, treatment of vagabonds, sturdy beggars

· Imprisonment and other punishments for crimes

· Crimes against the individual and property, poaching, pickpockets and footpads, artful dodgers

· imprisonment and other punishments, public execution, transportation

· prison reform, roles of John Howard and Elizabeth Fry: The Fieldings

· the development of the police force

· crimes against the individual and property, shoplifting, violence against the person,            car theft, computer crimes

· changing attitudes to crime and punishment, crime prevention, rehabilitation, the       changing role of the police, the debate on law and order in the last twenty years

Sample questions


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