Crime and Punishment 1000AD – today. An overview www.historyresourcecupboard.com

Overview 1000 years of change and continuity in crime and punishment. Crime and Punishment: An overview Overview 1000 years of change and continuity in crime and punishment. Look for different themes we will study. Learn the different time periods we will be studying. Look for patterns and trends over the 1000 years.

To do well in the history of crime and punishment course you will need to build on the great work you did at Key Stage 3. One thing that we need to build on is the great work you did on chronology. Chronology is the names and the sequence of historical time periods. Let’s have a quick chronological quiz…

Who are the following famous people? When did they live?

Middle Ages Industrial period Early Modern Twentieth century What order do they go in? Can you remember the names we give to time periods over the last thousand years?

Which famous person lived in which time period? Middle Ages Early Modern Industrial period Twentieth century

Middle Ages AD1000-1500 Early Modern AD1500-1700 Industrial period Can you remember the years of each period. Middle Ages AD1000-1500 Early Modern AD1500-1700 Industrial period AD1700-1900 Twentieth century AD1900-2000 This gives us a chronological framework to work with in our history of crime and punishment… Now copy these into your book.

The age of the Black Death Sometimes historians give different names to the same time periods. Ever heard of the following? Which of our time periods do they fit into? The Victorians The Tudors The Stuarts The Normans The Saxons The era of World Wars The Georgians The 19th century The age of the Black Death Middle Ages AD1000-1500 Early Modern AD1500-1700 Industrial period AD1700-1900 Twentieth century AD1900-2000

Let’s get the big story – an overview of 1000 years of crime and punishment.

Task One: Talk to your partner. What do you think each picture is showing? Task Two: Look at the various pictures. What groups can you sort the pictures into? Groups / Headings.

Task Three: Try to sort the pictures into the following groups: Crimes Policing Punishments Task Four: Match the captions to the correct pictures. Are they in the correct groups? Move any around that you need to.

Task Five: Sort the CRIMES cards (captions only) into chronological order. Do the same for PUNISHMENTS. Do the same for POLICING. Earliest (1000AD) Latest (C20)

Use the cards to decide which statements from the following are true Use the cards to decide which statements from the following are true. Copy only the TRUE statements. From 1000AD until the 1800s,punishments were often violent and harsh, to deter. There has been a professional police force over the last 1000 years. Prisons have been a key punishment for the last 1000 years. Prisons have only been used as a main form of punishment in the last 200 years. Between 1000-1829 communities policed themselves. Changes in society such as the growth of towns has had an effect on crime. Stocks and pillories have been used as a punishment throughout time. Religion affected punishments more and more since 1800. Transportation has been an effective punishment in Britain in the last 50 years. A paid and professional police force is only a relatively modern idea.