Question 6

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Changing view on the nature of crime

Attitude of the authorities

Attitude of the public

Religion

Technology

Witchcraft - 1500 -16th Century

Attitude of the authorities- most Kings and Queens were scared of witches.

James I was the most scared - wrote the book Demonology

If a family move away because of economic reasons an old woman would be left behind and she would be deemed a witch

If a crop failed, people blamed it on the old woman in their village.

Witches had familiars, cats and frogs.

Reformation, puritans ( a strict protestant) they believe that women were temptresses and bewitched men (misogyny)

Height of witchcraft was during the English Civil War.

It stops becoming a crime because of Charles the II who didn't believe in witches and believed in science and had it looked into, this period was called the enlightenment.

Extreme religious views ended and people stopped hating women.

People became wealthy and they no longer blamed a crop failure on them.

Conchies- World War One and Two

People didn't want to fight in the war because

- Religion

- Views

- Morality

Only 400 were granted exemption in the world war one.

Alternativists- These believed in helping out with cooking and first aid by stretcher baring.

Absolutists- Did not want to have any thing to do with the war - forced to fight, white feathers,15,000.

In the second world war it was easier to get exempted as people had seen the horrors of the war and the psychological damage that it could cause.

Domestic Violence

Attitudes in the 19th century of public and authorities

- Women didn't have any rights

- Women wouldn't have the guts to tell anyone

- What went on in the home was your business.

Rule of thumb - A man had the right to beat up his wife as long as it was no wider than his thumb.

The attitude in the 20th century changes because

- Women had rights and could vote

- The government now had a role

- MP Jack Ashley - stood up against the government to stop domestic violence

- Women's support groups started.

Erin Pizzey - Gave women a safe place to go (sets up a refuge in Chisic) by 1974 there are 40 refuges in the UK.

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