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Crime in 1450: stealing small amounts of money, goods or food |
very common not serious fine, stocks or pillary |
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Selling goods at the wrong prices |
very common not serious fine |
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Selling poor quality goods |
very common not serious fine, stocks or pillary |
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Assault |
rare fairly serious stocks or pillary, whipping |
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Blasphemy (taking gods name in vain) |
fairly common fairly serious branding (iron) |
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Theft of money or goods worth two days' wages or more |
very common very serious hanging |
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Arson (deliberately setting fire to property) |
rare very serious hanging |
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Rape |
rare very serious hanging |
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Murder |
rare very serious hanging |
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Heresy (not following official beliefs of the church) |
rare very serious burning at stake |
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Treason (crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government) |
very rare extremely serious hanging, drawing and quartering |
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Justice |
small villages had manor courts by 1450 they used a jury of twelve free men to decide if someone was guilty. people accused of more serious crimes - sent to royal court used trial by jury could sentence death penalty. church courts dealt with priests, monks and nuns accused or ordinary people who had broke church rules |
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Catching medieval crimes |
there were no police so communities were responsible for finding the criminal, tithings clergy and knights were responsible for each other |
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if one of the men was accused of crime, the rest brought that person to justice or paid a fine to the victim if a crime was committed, any eye witnesses were expected to shout & chase the criminal (hue and cry) |
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Crime 1450-1750 Factors effecting crime rate |
prices and unemployment was high taxes were increased during war |
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How crime was lowered |
strong government meant lower crime as criminals were more likely to be punished |
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Why crime increased |
increase in population, decline of feudalism: more people moved to urban areas, towns cities got bigger more street criminals and thieves |
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increased unemployment: more people moved around looking for work led to more people begging - became bigger crime 16th century |
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trade between towns grew: roads improved between 1700-1750 led to highway robbery, travellers on road |
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end of feudalism led to reduction in common land: land owners fenced it off led to increase in poaching as landowners restricted who could hunt on their land |
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changes in peoples religious beliefs & religion of the monarch led to more people committing 'heresy' during 16th century |
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more trade restrictions (in 1614, exporting wool became illegal & tax on tea & brandy increased in 18th century) smuggling crime was created, people imported illegal goods or goods that were heavily taxed |
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Begging |
increased unemployment and no system to help the needy meant higher numbers of beggars in late 15th and 16th century beggars: seen as threat to society, were hated & feared |
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Vagabonds and Beggars Act 1494: beggars put in stocks for 3 days & nights, then sent back to were born or most known 1531 beggars classed as - 'deserving' (sick, injured) given badge allowed to beg - 'sturdy beggars' considered lazy, punished |
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Vagrancy Act, 1547: beggars forced to work, could be whipped and branded. Act repelled - impossible to enforce |
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Treason |
more common as: - more disputes over who should be king - some wanted a monarch with different religion |
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Guy Fawkes: 5th November 1605, few Catholics who wanted Catholic monarch planned to kill the King and members of parliament. plotters were betrayed & Guy Fawkes (one of them) caught in cellar of the Houses of Parliament guarding barrels of gunpowder. all plotters found - hanged, drawn & quartered |
