OCR GCSE History B Crime and Punishment c.1250 to present overview quiz quiz

A yearly tax of one tenth of your produce paid to the Church

A group of about ten men responsible for each other's behaviour

A royal court where the King's judges tried the most serious crimes

A type of prison where those awaiting trial were held by the sheriff

By a trial by jury, with twelve local men weighing up the evidence

By a professional police force that gathered and examined the evidence

By trial by ordeal, in which God was thought to reveal the truth

By an early fingerprint test that matched the accused to the crime scene

A regular wage that was paid to all parish priests by the Church each year

A type of full pardon granted to a condemned criminal by the King

A Church tax collected from the people to pay for the local clergy

A way to escape a harsh royal court by proving you were a clergyman

Because of religious turmoil, social stress and figures such as Matthew Hopkins

Because of new scientific discoveries that proved that witches really existed

Because the King personally ordered every county to hunt down its own witches

Because the printing press spread the idea of witchcraft and nothing else mattered

Respected travellers who were welcomed in every town they passed through

Feared criminals, the 'sturdy beggars' who could work but would not

Church officials who collected the tithe from the people of the parish

Wealthy landowners who controlled large estates across the countryside

A medieval law book that set out the punishments for every known crime

The set of rules and procedures that governed the new Metropolitan Police

A system with over 200 crimes punishable by death, meant to deter by terror

A secret code that was used by smugglers to pass messages without being caught out

There were no judges available to hear the many cases that came to court

The King had personally banned the use of the death penalty across the land

Public executions had been made completely illegal by an act of Parliament

Juries refused to convict or undervalued stolen goods to avoid hanging

Robert Peel, 1829

John Howard, 1777

Elizabeth Fry, 1817

Aneurin Bevan, 1948

To British India, from the year 1750

To Australia, from 1787

To Canada, from the year 1800

To Ireland, from the year 1690

She founded the professional, paid and uniformed Metropolitan Police force

She invented the treadwheel as a hard form of pointless prison labour for inmates

She improved conditions for women at Newgate with education, work and religion

She abolished the death penalty for murder right across the whole of Britain

The silent system, in which prisoners worked together but never spoke

Transportation of convicts overseas to a far-off penal colony abroad

The Bloody Code, which made over 200 different crimes punishable by death

The separate system of solitary confinement and reform

1868

1929

1965

1998