guide through june 2015 exam - crime and punishment

June 2015 crime and punishment exam

• https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/GCSE/History/2009/Exam-materials/5HB01_1B_que_20150601.pdf (Enclavar)

Q1

• 1)
• Source A: A record of payment made to the Bow Street Runners in 1761.
• Sir John Fielding paid three men for their work on several nights.
• They were part of the horse patrol on the roads leading to this town,
• trying to catch a highwayman. They also distributed small ‘Wanted’
• posters containing a description
• of the highwayman and his horse
• Source B: A newspaper report, published in 2013, about a police appeal
• for information.
• An appeal was broadcast on the BBC Crimewatch television programme. The
• police asked for information about a murder that took place 20 years before.
• The Detective Chief Inspector said that after the appeal they had many
• telephone calls but two were very significant. One caller suggested a possible
• eyewitness to the attack. The other caller gave very good background
• information about suspects already known to the police.
• .1.What do Sources A and B show about changes in the way police investigate crime? Explain your answer, using Sources A and B and your own knowledge. (8)

How to answer this: structure

• Analysis.
• Candidate makes an inference about the nature or extent of change
• based on the explicit use of both sources and supported from own
• knowledge of the historical context.
• e.g. Explains the change from the methods used by Bow St Horse
• Patrol in Source A (distributing ‘Wanted’ posters and patrolling the
• area in the hope of catching the highwayman) to police use of
• modern technology in B to make a nationwide appeal long after the
• crime was committed and to cross reference the information
• received;
• Uses own knowledge to show the change from localised bodies such
• as the Bow St Runners and Horse Patrol to modern police services
• which coordinate on a national scale or to show that it was difficult
• to prove a highwayman’s crimes unless stolen goods were found
• whereas modern technology can sometimes prove guilt long
• afterwards through the identification of DNA on clothes or weapons.