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The Roman Empire
- Corporal punishment
- Physical punishment that
is not the death penalty
- Physical punishment that
is not the death penalty
- Roman laws covered
nearly every aspect of
Roman life
- The Roman law enforcement
(policing) forces' main task was
to punish criminals
- Capital Punsihments
- DEATH PENALTY
- Burning
- Guillotine
- Drowning
- Lethal injection
- Hanging
- DEATH PENALTY
- Roman Punishments
were often public and
violent in nature
- Crime and Punishment
- Prison sentences were not used
as punishments. Prisons were
only for people in debt or those
awaiting trial or execution.
- Over time punishments
became more violent.
- amputations of limbs
- Death by pouting molten
lead down the convicted
persons throat
- Crucifixion
- amputations of limbs
- Anyone convicted of patricide
(killing their father was tied in a
sack containing snakes and
thrown into the river to drown.
- Citizens could be put to
death for serious crimes.
- Arson
- attacking the Emperor
- Robbing temples
- stealing
farm
animals
- Arson
- Punishments or lesser
crimes. e.g. theft, selling
under weight bread
- whipping
- confiscation of property
- Repaying the cost of
goods
- whipping
- Nobles could be sentenced to death for
serious crimes, but they were allowed to
go into exile and avoid execution.
- Legionaries who ran away
in a battle faced execution.
- 1 in every 10 men from the legions that
the ran away from was chosen and also
executed.
- 1 in every 10 men from the legions that
the ran away from was chosen and also
executed.
- Prison sentences were not used
as punishments. Prisons were
only for people in debt or those
awaiting trial or execution.
- Law enforcement
- Roman laws dealt
with every possible
crime
- assassination of
the Emperor
- street theft
- Burgulary
- assassination of
the Emperor
- Laws designed to make
Rome a better place to live
- Laws laid down that householders had to keep
pavements and streets outside their homes clean.
- Dumping waste in the River Tiber
(where drinking water came from)
was illegal
- So was starting fires
- There was always great
danger of fire spreading rapidly
and destroying hundreds of
homes
- There was always great
danger of fire spreading rapidly
and destroying hundreds of
homes
- So was starting fires
- Laws laid down that householders had to keep
pavements and streets outside their homes clean.
- The first recorded Roman
laws were the Twelve
Tables
- Written around 450BC.
- Children leaned them by
heart at school
- Over the next 1000 years
new laws were added as
rulers tried to stop crimes
- Written around 450BC.
- The greatest Roman law
code was the work of the
Emperor Justinian in AD533.
- He brought all the laws
together and simplified and
organised them into one
system
- He brought all the laws
together and simplified and
organised them into one
system
- In early years of Rome
there was no police
force in the city
- If a Roman was attacked or
robbed, then he had to catch
the criminal himself, with help
from friends and neighbours
- In AD6 the Emperor
Augustus set up police
forces in Rome
- The situation
didn't change
much.
- The core of
police were riot
troops
- The core of
police were riot
troops
- If a Roman was attacked or
robbed, then he had to catch
the criminal himself, with help
from friends and neighbours
- Roman laws dealt
with every possible
crime
- Methods of preventing crime
- Make sure trials were
fair so the guilty were
properly convicted
- The more violent an execution
is, the better because it will
frighten other away from the
crime.
- Executions were cheap
- Make sure trials were
fair so the guilty were
properly convicted
- Treason, Arson and murder were
punished most harshly to make an
example
- Roman trials were fair.
- Minor crime was
tried by a judge
- Major crime by a
jury
- Minor crime was
tried by a judge
- The Romans had a complex system
of punishments with fines and
executions
- Boudicca's revolt
- King of Iceni died.
The Romans took
land and looted
homes
- When Boudicca
protested, she was
flogged and her
daughter raped
- Boudicca led a
rebellion of the Iceni
and other tribes
rushed to join them
- Paulinus gathered
an army of 10,000,
which was much
smaller than the
rebel army
- Boudicca's army
raced to the attack,
but when they started
to retreat, they were
trapped by their own
wagons
- Romans initial
reactions were to
slaughter the rebels
and their families,
but instead they
decided to Romanise
them.
- Romans initial
reactions were to
slaughter the rebels
and their families,
but instead they
decided to Romanise
them.
- Boudicca's army
raced to the attack,
but when they started
to retreat, they were
trapped by their own
wagons
- Paulinus gathered
an army of 10,000,
which was much
smaller than the
rebel army
- Boudicca led a
rebellion of the Iceni
and other tribes
rushed to join them
- When Boudicca
protested, she was
flogged and her
daughter raped
- King of Iceni died.
The Romans took
land and looted
homes
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