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Changes in Crime and Punishment overview quiz - WJEC GCSE History quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Which unit and type of study is Changes in Crime and Punishment?

  2. What new crimes appeared in the early modern period c.1500 to 1700?

  3. Why did the fear of witchcraft peak between about 1560 and 1660?

  4. What was the Bloody Code?

  5. When and by whom was the first professional police force created?

  6. Where were convicts transported in the industrial period?

  7. How did the purpose of punishment change across the period?

  8. When was the death penalty for murder abolished?

  9. Which are new crimes of the modern period?

  10. What were the Rebecca Riots?

  11. Who was Dic Penderyn?

  12. What factors drove change in crime and punishment?