To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 Learning objective: To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 Please read and highlight your timeline. When did this event occur? Why was Guy Fawkes punished so harshly in 1605?

How much progress will you make today? Derek Bentley Prioritise changes to punishment after 1900 (Grade A/A*) Explain the turning points in punishment after 1900 after 1900 (Grade C/B) Borstal Describe changes to punishment after 1900 (Grade E/D) New punishments

Derek Bentley Learning objective: To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 ‘Here are two lads, one of 16 and one of 19, admittedly out on a shop breaking expedition at night, armed with a Service revolver, a dreadful weapon in the shape of a knuckle-duster, and two knives which may or may not be described as daggers – one of them I think certainly could be – and the result is that a young policeman is shot dead while in the execution of his duty. You may think it almost a miracle that others were not shot too. One of them, we know, Sergeant Fairfax, was wounded, but fortunately only slightly’. Judges’ comments from the trial of Derek Bentley. 1952. Derek Bentley

To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 Learning objective: To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 The legal system makes mistakes and capital punishment cannot be reversed Execution does not act as a deterrent to murder Execution is barbaric and we fought a war to prevent this kind of atrocity The Home Secretary is reprieving more than half of those sentenced to death. There have been 7454 murders; 1210 sentences to capital punishment and only 632 executions

Learning objective: To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 Use the sources and your own knowledge to explain changing attitudes to capital punishment in Britain (8 marks) You Source A A public execution under the Bloody Code Source B A crowd outside Wandsworth prison, 1953

To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 Learning objective: To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 The sources show a clear change in attitudes towards capital punishment from ________ to ___________. Source A shows that in the Early Modern era….. This is clear because…. add a line of own knowledge here In contrast Source B indicates … The evidence for this is… The turning point in changing attitudes to capital punishment came ….

To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 Learning objective: To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 Christopher Barry murder: Boy aged 13 locked up for 11 years after stabbing builder during petty row

To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 Learning objective: To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 1908 – Borstals set up to house young criminals

To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 Learning objective: To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900

How much progress will you make today? Derek Bentley Prioritise changes to punishment after 1900 (Grade A/A*) Explain the turning points in punishment after 1900 after 1900 (Grade C/B) Borstal Describe changes to punishment after 1900 (Grade E/D) New punishments

To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 Learning objective: To investigate changing attitudes to punishment since 1900 Why were vagabonds punished so harshly in the sixteenth century? How was Guy Fawkes punished for the Gunpowder Plot? Why was this punishment considered necessary? When was public execution abolished in Britain? When was transportation introduced? How many convicts were transported to Australia? When was capital punishment suspended in Britain? Give an example of a new punishment since 1900 Quick Quiz