Paper One 1998

Questions

1. Study Sources A, B, C, D and E  and then answer questions (a) to (d) below.

(a) Study Source A and use your own knowledge.

Why were executions held in public? (2)

(b) Study Source B and use your own knowledge.

Explain why executions were no longer held in public by the end of the nineteenth century. (4)

(c) Study Source C and use your own knowledge.

Explain (i) why transportation began to be used as a punishment in the eighteenth century, and (ii) why it was not used after the middle of the nineteenth century.  (7)

(d) Study Sources D and E and use your own knowledge.

Use the sources, and your own knowledge, to show the importance of government attitudes in bringing about changes in punishments since the early nineteenth century.  (7)

Answer ONE of the following questions.

EITHER

Extension Unit 1: Crime and Punishment from the Ancient World and the Middle Ages.

2. (a) Choose TWO items from the boxes below and describe their part in maintaining law and order in England in the Middle Ages  (8)

    (b) How much did the Anglo-Saxon system of law and order change after the Norman Conquest? Explain your answer giving examples. (7)

OR

Extension Unit 2: Religious and Political Protest

3. (a) Choose TWO items from the boxes below. How similar were the methods used by the protestors you have chosen? (7)

    (b) 'The development of a professional police force made it more difficult to hold political protests in the twentieth century.' Do you agree? Explain your answer. (8)

OR

Extension Unit 3: Social and Economic Protest and Pressure

4. (a) How similar were the aims of the Luddites and the Swing Rioters?  (6)

    (b) The General Strike was over in a few days. Does that mean it was not as serious a challenge to the authorities as the Swing Riots OR the Luddite protests? Explain your answer. (9)

OR

Extension Unit 4: Changing Views of Crime

5. (a) Choose TWO items from the boxes below. What part did they play in the witchcraze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? (6)

   (b) Why was there less fear of witches by the end of the seventeenth century? (9)

The behaviour, looks and language of the crowd gathered at the execution this morning, was an awful sight. I am convinced that nothing could do so much harm as one public execution. I am appalled by the wickedness it exhibits.