Crime, Punishment and Protest Through Time, c.1450-2004
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Crime, punishment and protest is one of the fastest-growing GCSE history courses in England and Wales. It is a study in development over a period of over 500 years, and part of the Schools History Project (SHP) GCSE syllabus.

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Early Modern Britain

1500-1750

 

Industrial Britain

1750-1900

 

Twentieth Century

1900-1999

 

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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

 

                                                  
                                                

Paper One 2000

Questions

 

1. (a) Study Sources A, B and C.

Use the sources to show the role governments play in deciding what actions should be punished as crimes. (6)

 

EITHER

 

    (b) What contribution did Elizabeth Fry make to prison reform? (5)

 

OR

 

        What contribution did Robert Peel make to reform of the law and policing? (10)

 

   (c) Study Source D.

What part has new technology played in changes in crime and law enforcement in the twentieth century? Explain your answer, referring to THREE examples of changes. (9)

 

Answer ONE of the following questions

 

EITHER

 

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

 

2. (a) Describe the key features of the Anglo-Saxon system of law and order. (7)

 

    (b) How similar were Anglo-Saxon and Tudor

 

 (i) Methods of punishment, and

(ii) Systems of law and order? . (8)

 

OR

 

Extension Unit 2: Religious and Political Protest

 

3. (a) Why was the Pilgrimage of Grace not more successful? (7)

 

    (b) How much change has there been in the methods used to deal with political protests since 1815? Explain your answer, using THREE examples of protests you have studied. (8)

 

OR

 

Extension Unit 3: Social and Economic Protest and Pressure

 

4. (a) Choose EITHER

 

 (i) The Swing Riots

 

OR

 

(ii) The Luddites Protests

 

Why was the movement you have chosen unable to achieve all of its aims? (7)

 

 

    (b) How serious a challenge to the authorities was the General Strike of 1926? Explain your answer. (8)

 

OR

 

Extension Unit 4: Changing Views of Crime

 

5. (a) Choose EITHER

 

 (i) The Tolpuddle Martyrs in the nineteenth century

 

OR

 

(ii) Conscientious Objectors in the First World War

 

Describe the way they were treated by the authorities at the time. (7)

 

   (b) Explain why there were so many witch-trials in the sixteenth century and the seventeenth century.  (8)

 

 

 


Sources

 

Source A

The majority of Elizabeth's  subjects obediently attended church services on Sundays, if only to avoid the shilling* fine for non-attendance. Catholicism remained strongest in those areas most distant from central government, such as the North and West.

*At the time, one shilling would be more than a day's wages for an ordinary labourer.

From A History of the Reign of Elizabeth I, written in 1988. It describes the sixteenth century laws which were designed to stop Roman Catholics from following their religion.

 

Source B

27 June - The apprentices who had stolen butter were whipped, pilloried and imprisoned

29 June - Unruly youths attacked the watchman and were arrested by sheriffs

24 July - Five of the youths arrested on 29 June were drawn from Newgate to Tower Hill, where they were hanged and disembowelled as traitors.

The punishments given to some of those who took part in the London apprentice riots of 1595. On 13 June many apprentices who were short of food stole butter from Southwark market.

 

Source C

Prison sentences for racially motivated crimes of violence will be increased under new government plans....The harsher punishment is designed to show that racist crime will not be tolerated. The new Crime and Disorder Bill will introduce a new offence of racial harassment and racially motivated violence.

From The Times newspaper July 1997.

 

Source D

A photograph of a police helicopter in the 1990s. It is fitted with TV cameras and searchlights

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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