Edexcel GCSE History - S H P
Crime and Punishment Unit
Revision Mindmaps – Core content
By Mr Wallbanks
Reasons for severe
approach to
punishment
Attitudes to
crime
The Bloody Code
The introduction of
Transportation
Guy Fawkes & the
Gunpowder Plot
Theft
Crime and Punishment in
the Early Modern Era
(1450- 1700)
Treason
Jonathan Wild
Types of Crime
Poaching
The Vagabonds
Early
policing
Smuggling
Constables &
Watchmen
Hue and Cry
Problems caused by the
development of towns
Problems of
policing
How did the growth of towns
lead to increases in the
number & types of crime?
Smuggling
Attitudes of law
makers
Response of the
people
Transportation
The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Their crime
Attitudes of the
authorities.
Poaching
Prison conditions
The work of
Elizabeth Fry
The end of
transportation
The work of John
Howard
Prison conditions and prison
reformers 1750 – 1900.
New prisons/
improvements
Changing attitudes to
the purpose of prison
The end of the Bloody
Code
The end of public
execution
Silent and separate
systems
Sir Robert Peel
Opposition to
early police
Early problems/
successes
Later
developments
Why the police were
introduced?
The development of the police
force
The army as riot
control
The Fielding
Brothers
What did the Bow Street
Runners do?
Successes
Limitations
The Peterloo
Massacre
Dealing with riots
& law and order
The end of public
executions
Changing attitudes
to punishment
Increasing use
of prisons
How did the nature of punishment
change 1750 - 1900?
The end of the Bloody
Code
The end of
transportation
Consequences
Problems facing the
police
Events
How has terrorism
changed the work of
the police
Abolition of
execution
Two Key Events of the 20th Century
Effect on
attitudes to
execution
Who was Derek Bentley?
His punishment
Crime
Why his
case is so
important
Handling
complaints
against the police
Specialisation of the
police
Responding to new
types of crime
Changing
attitudes to the
police.
How policing developed
in the 20th century.
The changing role of
the police
Community Policing
Crime prevention &
detecting criminals
Dealing with
terrorism
Using new
technology
Tax evasion
What effect does new
technology have on crime?
Smuggling?
Computer
crimes
Are there any
new crimes ?
People
trafficking
New crimes or old
in the 21st century?
Race relationship
laws
Car crime
How has the government
become involved in the
defining of crime?
Traffic offences
Changes in the purpose of
prisons
Prisons and young people
New punishments/
alternatives to prison
How have punishments
changed in the 20th century?
Why was the
death penalty
abolished?
Women in prisons
Extension Studies (You must know all 3 inside out as the questions on this are worth
50% of this unit’s mark)
A) Witchcraft in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
•Why were people afraid of witchcraft?
•How did the authorities make this a crime?
•How were witches punished?
•Why did society undergo a witchcraft craze? - You need to focus on the influence of the attitudes in
society on the fear of witches.
•Why did the fear of witchcraft die out?
•Finally you need to be able to identify how the changing of attitudes resulted in changes to the law.
B) Conscientious objection in the twentieth century.
•How were the Conscientious Objectors punished by the authorities in the First and Second World
Wars?
•What were the attitudes in society of the Conscientious Objectors?
•Why was being a CO considered to be a crime in World War One and why did attitudes to being a CO
change?
•How did the changing of attitudes towards being a CO result in changes to the law?
C) Domestic violence in the twentieth century.
•How have attitudes towards domestic violence changed? What caused these changes?
•You need to understand why domestic violence was not considered to be a crime and why attitudes to
domestic violence changed.
•You need to be able to identify how the changing of attitudes resulted in changes to the law.
•You need to understand how authority reacted to domestic violence and how those involved were
punished.
Matthew
Hopkins
Why did the fear of
witchcraft die out?
•Why were people afraid of
witchcraft?
Why did society
undergo a
witchcraft
craze? -
King James I’s book
Witchcraft in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
Elizabeth I’s
laws
•How were witches
punished?
Finally you need to be
able to identify how
the changing of
attitudes resulted in
changes to the law.
•How did the
authorities make
this a crime?
King James I
witchcraft laws
Henry VIII’s laws
Second World War
First World War
Punishments
First World War
The attitudes of
the authorities
to COs
How the law
changed as a result
of changing
attitudes
Conscientious objection in the
twentieth century.
Second World War
Attitudes to C Os by society
First World War
Second World War
Why did attitudes to
being a CO change
The media
Protest
groups
What caused these
changes?
How those involved
were punished.
How authority
reacted to domestic
violence.
Jack
Ashley
Erin
Pizzey
How have attitudes
towards domestic
violence changed?
Domestic violence in the twentieth
century.
How changing
attitudes resulted in
changes to the law.
Why domestic violence was
not considered to be a crime.
Why attitudes to
domestic violence
changed.