Crime Punishment and Protest Through Time

Crime, Punishment and Protest Through Time, c.1450-2004

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The Suffrage Movement

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Anti-Suffrage Cartoon from 1913

Timeline 20th Century
1901	Fingerprint database
1902	Borstal opens for young offenders
1903	WPSU founded - the Suffragettes
1907	Probation Service
1910	Radio used to arrest Doctor Crippen
1914	Great War begins
1917	Russian Revolution
1926	General Strike
1933	Great Depression
1936	Open Prison - Wakefield
1948	Attendance Centres
1965	Death Penalty ends
1965	Race Relations Act
1971	Crown Courts
1973	IRA Bombing of England begins
1975	Sex Discrimination Act
1981	Inner-city riots
1982	Borstals abolished
1984	Great Miners' Strike
1985	Heysel Football Disaster
1990	Strangeways Riot

Contents

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, Swing Riots, Tolpuddle, Rebecca, Chartism, Prison Reformers, Dock Strike........more

Twentieth Century

c.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

Learn History 2004