1. Changes in Crime and Punishment in Britain c.500 - present
Revision Mind Maps / Key questions.

2. What have been the main causes of crime over time?
Problems in the Medieval period
Impact of religious change
Pressures of Industrialisation and urbanisation
20th century pressures: technology, violent crime, anti-social behaviour

3. Vagrancy, heresy, treason
How has the nature of criminal activity differed and changed over time?
Medieval Crimes
Vagrancy, heresy, treason
Smuggling, highway robbery,
Crimes in cities and countryside
Modern crimes: cars, tech and terrorism

4. Community and family responsibility in the Medieval period
How has the responsibility of enforcing law and order changed over time?
Community and family responsibility in the Medieval period
Manorial, Church and Royal courts
Civic and Parish responsibility in the 16th century
Police forces in the 19th century
Changes in policing in the modern period

5. How effective have methods of combating crime been over time?
Community methods of catching criminals, Medieval period
Tudor JPs and parish officers
Bow Street Runners
Peel and the Metropolitan Police
Extension of the police in the 19th century
20th century developments: transport, communication, specialism, community

6. How have methods of punishment changed over time?
Harsh punishment in Medieval period
Tudor treatment of vagabonds
Public punishment up to 19th century
Transportation
Early prisons
Prison reformers: Howard, Paul and Fry
New prisons: Separate and Silent systems
Alternative punishments of the 20th century

7. Why have attitudes to crime and punishment changed over time?
Retribution and deterrence as the purpose of punishment
Purpose of public punishment over time: humiliation to execution
Concept of banishment
Prisons and reform in the 19th century
Young offenders in the 20th century
Abolition of the death sentence
Rehabilitation and restitution in the 20th century