Week 7: Prisons / Punishment / Violent Crime

Jack the Ripper

This week we'll be continuing our study of Nineteenth Century prisons; looking at the 'punishment revolution' of that century and looking at how violent crime really was.

Extended Learning

The Changing Nature of Crime

Students need to answer the following questions as a pair - one set of word processed answers should be handed in. Do review each other’s ideas

MW/FF            AG/AW            GC/BB             AD/JF              SB/JP              DR/LW

MW/GP           DH/TW            RH/JC             DB/CC/CG

You notes should deal with the themes / ideas covered in Todd 34-37. Do use other sources e.g. internet sites esp. for Q2

1.     How did attitudes as to what constitutes crime change between 1900 and 2012?

2.     What was the significance of the Stephen Lawrence case? What does it illustrate regarding the changing nature of crime?

3.     Why is it hard to assess whether crime is rising or not?

4.     To what extent did crime increase in the Twentieth Century?

5.     What part do newspapers play in increasing the fear of crime?

6.     Why do newspapers report crime in the manner that they do?

Crime Song 7: 'Fairytale of New York' - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8

Week 6: Unrest, Policing and Prisons

Early depiction of the Metropolitan Police

 

 

This week we will be analysing the nature of challenges to government authority in the early Nineteenth Century and the development of policing. We will then start to analyse the changing nature of prisons.

 

Last week we rather anachronistically looked at witchcraft. You know that will definitely come up in your exam because that is the only entension topic we have done.

 

 

Crime Song 6: 'Guns of Brixton' - The Clash (1979)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiQoq-wqZxg



Week ?: Transportation

It has been a long time since the last post. Most of our time since then has been on US Civil Rights with the odd bit of the Bloody Code, Jonathan Wild, Guy Fawkes and the background to Crime and Punishment 1750-1900 thrown in for good measure.

This week we will be looking at Transportation and we'll be traveling to America, Australia and a village just outside of Dorchester

Festival in honour of the Topuddle Martyrs

Extended Learning Assignment

Why did the authorities start using transportation as a punishment in the 1660s and stop using it in 1868? (12)

• In the 1660s some criminals were sent to the Americas
• 1823: Gaol Act
• By the 1830s it was costing half a million pounds per year to transport criminals to Australia

Crime Song 5: 'Down By the Water' - PJ Harvey (1995)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbq4G1TjKYg

Week 3: 'Early Modern' Punishment and Law Enforcement

In the last lesson of the year we will briefly look at Punishment and Law Enforcement in the 1450 - 1750 Period

A Typical Punishment

Extended Learning Assignment

1. Read and highlight notes on the Hawkhurst Gang - What do they tell you about the nature of smuggling? (20/7)

2. Why were vagabonds punished so heavily in Tudor Times? (9) (6/9)

3. Why was there a growth of poaching between 1500 and 1750? (9) (6/9)

4. Revise notes on US Protest in 1950s and 1960s. (6/9)

Have a great Summer. The History Bee is going to be feasting on handball at the Olympics!

Crime Song Number 4: 'Trainsurfing' - Stina Nordenstam (2001)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcB5e9oAfRw

Week 2: 'Early Modern' Crime

Harsh Treatment of Beggars in Elizabethan Times

This week we will be looking at typically 'Early Modern' crimes such as poaching, begging, vagrancy and  smuggling.

How similar are these crimes to ones committed today? How are crimes shaped by the social and economic background against which they take place? Also how 'political' are crimes?

Reminder: Late Medieval Crime Assignment is due in on Friday

Crime Song 3: 'Bonnie and Clyde' - Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot (1968)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKfBJMIANsM

Extended Learning Assignment 1: Later Medieval Crime and Punishment

Your first Crime and Punishment Extended Learning Assignment is to be completed by Friday 6 July 2012

How was Later Medieval Crime and Punishment different to today? (12)

• Stealing was a serious crime (felony)
• Anyone over the age of 10 could be executed
• Members of a tithing had the job of bringing people to justice

To get the highest band of marks (9-12) you need to show you understand the focus of the question and deploy sufficient and accurate material to support your points.

Crime Song Number 2: 'Been Caught Stealing' - Jane's Addiction (1990)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrwjiO1MCVs

Introduction to a History of Crime

Welcome to the start of a new blog which will cover units for Units 1 and 3 of your History course. The first unit we will be covering is Unit 1 - Crime and Punishment which studies those areas from 1450 to the present day. This week we will be starting to to look at your attitudes towards crime, its nature and attitudes towards crime.

Smuggling 'the old Way'

Twenty First Century Smuggling

Crime Song Number 1: 'Miss Otis Regrets' - Ella Fitzgerald (1956)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX-b1Ksetcc