2018 GCSE Year 10 Mock Exam Always read the question carefully. Be familiar with the key terms. Know the topics as well as possible and add detail.

Q1: Identify one similarity and one difference in changing attitudes to crime and punishment. Sources A and C both show that in the 15th and 21st centuries criminals were often punished in public. Sources A and B both show a difference in attitudes from public humiliation to separate imprisonment.

Q2: Which of the two sources is more reliable to an historian studying the nature of criminal activity over time? (6) Source D – heresy. Exaggerated. ‘ dangerous plots are practised daily.’ Source E- protest. (Luddites). Shows what new crime was happening at the time.

Q3: Describe the methods of combatting crime in the medieval period Hue and cry Tithing/Hundredman Sheriff JPs/Parish Constable/ Nightwatchmen Public punishment

Poor conditions.- prison fever/ Bridewells Corrupt- no wages Q4: Explain why the prison system was in need of reform by the 19th century. (9) By 1800. Poor conditions.- prison fever/ Bridewells Corrupt- no wages Idea changed- prison now seen as a place to make prisoners better. (rehabilitation) Growing prison population because transportation had ended by 1840. Key fact: 1823 Gaols Act brought better conditions.

Q5: Outline how responsibility for enforcing law and order has changed from c. 500 to the present Who is in charge?. One paragraph for each era. SPaG 1. Medieval- Jps/Tithing/Hundredman/ Sheriff/ Courts 2. Tudor/Stuart- JPs/Parish 3. Constable/Nightwatchmen 4. Industrial- JPs/ Bow Street Runners/ Met Police 5. Present- Judges/ Courts/ Police/ CSO/

Q6a:Describe two main features of life in the East End of London which led to crime in the late 19th century. (8) Poor visibility and lighting. Thick fog- ‘peasoupers.’ Local council would not invest in street lights. Narrow streets. Easy to escape and hide in rookeries. Poverty. People turned to crime to survive.

Q6b: Explain why increased crime in the East End led to changes in policing in the late 19th century. Profiling of suspects Mug-shots and facial measurements to reconstruct sketches. Plain clothes police. Identity parades Criminal profiling