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Why Study CPP?
You learn what crimes have made the news through time - and what the authorities
have tried to do about them!
What has made the people of this island rise up and demand change? You'll study
the protest movements from Kett through to the Poll Tax Protests.
Have we gone 'soft' on crime? You will also explore how our attitudes to
punishment have changed over the centuries.
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What is? Crime, Punishment, Protest
How have these changed? Crime, Protest,
Punishment and Policing.
What
happened in?
Early-Modern
c.1500-1750
Kett's
Rebellion, Pilgrimage of Grace, Gunpowder Plot, Vagabonds, Poaching, Smuggling,
Highwaymen, Witchcraft, Corporal Punishment, Bloody Code........more
Industrial Britain
c.1750-1900
Theft and
robbery, Poverty, Police, Transportation, Prisons,
Luddites, Peterloo,
Swing Riots,
Chartism, Prison Reformers, Dock Strike........more
Twentieth
Century
1900-2000
Suffrage
Movement, Conscientious Objectors, General Strike, Hanging, Youth Detention,
Fingerprinting, DNA, Surveillance, Drug Crime, Hooliganism, Community Service,
Race Crime.........more
Who were?
Robert
Aske, Matthew Hopkins, Jonathan Wild, Dick Turpin, John Howard, Elizabeth Fry,
Derek Bentley........more
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Paper One 1999
Questions
1.
Study Sources A and B and use your own knowledge.
Why were each of these punishments used in these periods? (5)
2.
Study Source C and use your own knowledge.
Why was it so difficult to deal with smugglers in the eighteenth century?
Use the source and your own knowledge to explain your answer. (7)
3.
Study Sources D and E and use your own knowledge.
What impact has the motor car had on crime and on law enforcement? Explain
your answer. (8)
Answer ONE of the following questions.
EITHER
Extension Unit 1: Crime and Punishment from the Ancient World onwards.
4.
(a) Describe the key features of Roman Law (6)
(b) How well did the system of royal justice work in the Middle Ages?
Explain your answer. (9)
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Extension Unit 2: Religious and Political Protest
5.
(a) Choose ONE of the groups from the boxes below and explain their aims (6)
| Pilgrimage of Grace |
Guy Fawkes Plotters |
Protesters at Peterloo |
(b) The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Suffragette movement are both examples
of mass protests. How different were the responses of the authorities to
these mass protests? (9)
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Extension Unit 3: Social and Economic Protest and Pressure
6.
(a) How similar were the challenges of the Kett rebels in the sixteenth
century and the General Strikers in the twentieth century? (7)
(b) Why was the London Dock Strike of 1889 so successful? (8)
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Extension Unit 4: Changing Views of Crime
7.
(a) Explain why the authorities dealt with the Tolpuddle Martyrs in the
nineteenth century in the way they did. (6)
(b) Choose TWO from the boxes below or any other examples you have studied.
Use your examples to show why attitudes to some crimes have changed over
time. (9)
| Witches in the Sixteenth
Century |
Conscientious Objectors in
the Twentieth Century |
Race Relation Laws in the
Twentieth Century |
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Sources
Source A
A travelling musician in the stocks - sixteenth
century
Source B
A drawing showing prisoners in a prison ship in the
1820s
Source C
| If any smuggler is taken and
the proof is ever so clear against him, no magistrate in the county dare
commit him to gaol. If he did he was sure to have his house or barns set on
fire, if he was so lucky to escape with his life. |
A report to the Duke of Richmond, 1749. The Duke was
trying to smash the smuggling gangs.
Source D
A photograph showing police enforcing the law about
drinking and driving in the 1990s
Source E
| The first motor cars appeared
on British roads in 1894; by 1939 60% of all cases coming before
magistrates, and a quarter of all crime, involved motor cars. |
From 'Crime and Punishment through Time', a textbook
published in 1997.
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Crime,
Punishment and Protest Through Time, c.1450-2004
