Crime and Punishments in the Renaissance The Renaissance was a very interesting and unique era in history. It’s known for a plethora of different inventions, arts, and ways of life. For example, in the Renaissance, there were multiple different crimes that caused people to be punished in cruel and unusual ways. Much of this is different from today, but some of it is also very similar. For instance, the multiple convictions that caused people to be punished. There were two main types of convictions that resulted in severe punishments, those being crimes against people and crimes against property. Crimes against people most popularly included assault, rape and murder. These types of crimes were more popular and, ultimately, these cases filled
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A case was either solved by a judge or by the people involved, which was contingent on where the involved people stood on the social ladder. In cases that included a judge, a big investigation was put into place to try and determine the facts and get a correct sentencing. They tried their hardest to make the newly founded system work. Although, as hard as they tried, the justice system had very little funding, which, ultimately, resulted in both innocent and guilty people suffering from it. A popular tactic used by hired prosecutors was to use torture methods to get a quick confession and a shorter sentencing, therefore, saving the system time and money. If a crime was committed involving a royal family member that caused them embarrassment, then the criminal was sentenced an immediate execution without a trial. When a victim had a crime committed against them, their job was to bring their claim to court where their job from there was to then investigate their claim to prove it correct. If they failed to do so, they would then have to pay the court costs and could potentially suffer the consequence that would’ve been given to suspect. In cases that involved unimportant people, the people involved would conduct a case using informal procedure to save the courts time and money (“Crime and Punishment”). The result of the cases depended on the …show more content…
Higher class individuals were sentenced to less extreme punishments, such as loss of status, fines, banishment, or a private execution; however, executions were only sentenced to them for severe and less common crimes. On the other side, lower class individuals were often punished with public beatings and executions. These sentences were punishments by both embarrassment and torture (Black 897). The standard public punishments were flogging, decapitation, crucifixion, and burning. For especially offensive crimes, the criminal would be sewn into a sack with a live snake, rooster, dog and monkey and then thrown into the ocean (Aldrete). For the cases of banishment, criminals were either confined to another place to be excluded from society or they were sent to dangerous mines that usually resulted in death. If someone became in debt to someone then, as a result, they’d became enslaved to them until they could pay them back (Aldrete). People that were sent to prison were just held in one cell until their execution. In the prisons, the conditions they endured depended on the amount of money they paid. For example, the more money someone paid, the more food they’d get (Schrader 413-427). Prisons were also used as workhouses full of hard labor and starvation (Aldrete). Although a lot of the
A case was either solved by a judge or by the people involved, which was contingent on where the involved people stood on the social ladder. In cases that included a judge, a big investigation was put into place to try and determine the facts and get a correct sentencing. They tried their hardest to make the newly founded system work. Although, as hard as they tried, the justice system had very little funding, which, ultimately, resulted in both innocent and guilty people suffering from it. A popular tactic used by hired prosecutors was to use torture methods to get a quick confession and a shorter sentencing, therefore, saving the system time and money. If a crime was committed involving a royal family member that caused them embarrassment, then the criminal was sentenced an immediate execution without a trial. When a victim had a crime committed against them, their job was to bring their claim to court where their job from there was to then investigate their claim to prove it correct. If they failed to do so, they would then have to pay the court costs and could potentially suffer the consequence that would’ve been given to suspect. In cases that involved unimportant people, the people involved would conduct a case using informal procedure to save the courts time and money (“Crime and Punishment”). The result of the cases depended on the …show more content…
Higher class individuals were sentenced to less extreme punishments, such as loss of status, fines, banishment, or a private execution; however, executions were only sentenced to them for severe and less common crimes. On the other side, lower class individuals were often punished with public beatings and executions. These sentences were punishments by both embarrassment and torture (Black 897). The standard public punishments were flogging, decapitation, crucifixion, and burning. For especially offensive crimes, the criminal would be sewn into a sack with a live snake, rooster, dog and monkey and then thrown into the ocean (Aldrete). For the cases of banishment, criminals were either confined to another place to be excluded from society or they were sent to dangerous mines that usually resulted in death. If someone became in debt to someone then, as a result, they’d became enslaved to them until they could pay them back (Aldrete). People that were sent to prison were just held in one cell until their execution. In the prisons, the conditions they endured depended on the amount of money they paid. For example, the more money someone paid, the more food they’d get (Schrader 413-427). Prisons were also used as workhouses full of hard labor and starvation (Aldrete). Although a lot of the