History 1500-1700

History 1500-1700

1. Crimes

   • Witchcraft
   • Vagabonds
   • Treason
   • Heresy
   • Begging
   • Theft
   • Highway robbery
   • Poaching

2. Law enforcment

   • Witch hunts
   • Justices of peace
   • Coroners
   • Town constables
   • Night Watchmen
   • Printing

3. Punishments

   • Transportation
     • Positive
       • State get rid of criminals
       • Free labour
       • Opertunity to start a new life after 7 years
       • Not executed
     • Negatives
       • Lots of money needed
       • Hard Labour that often killed
       • All criminals in one place
   • Capital punishment
   • Prison
   • Branding
   • Whipping
   • Hung drawn and quatered

4. Bloody code

   • The Bloody code was where hundreds of small crimes were punishable by death
   • why did they stop it
     • Reformers were arguing against it
     • The crowds were often drunk and disorderly
     • It was a fun event for most spectators and not a detterent
     • sometimes the crowed mocked the law and treated the criminal as a hero
     • The executions didn't appear to reduce crime

5. Vagabonds

   • The crime was the crime of begging in area that you weren't from
   • Why Vagabonds were treated as criminal
     • The media exagerated the dangers of Vagabonds
     • Rising population led to less houses and less jobs
     • The Vagrancy act made begging illegal in a town you wern't born in