Crime and Punishment: Early Modern (1500-1750)
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- crime
- Early Modern (1500-1750)
- punishments
- shaming
- public humiliation
- stocks
- pillory
- cucking/ducking stools
- scold's bridle
- prisons
- debtors
- awaiting trial
- bloody code
- increased crimes punishable by death
- 200 by 1820
- bridewells
- hard labour
- vagrancy
- house of correction
- capital punishment
- hanging
- hanging, drawing and quartering
- shaming
- law enforcement
- similar to medieval
- assizes, (serious)
- quarter sessions (JPs)
- petty sessions (JPs)
- manor courts declined
- Church courts (moral)
- similar to medieval
- punishments
- highway robbery
- no banks, rich people travelled with money
- unlit roads, very violent
- glamourized by Victorians
- cut off a woman's tongue
- smuggling
- at night, by sea
- Lord funded it
- to avoid import tax
- locals involved
- could be violent
- moral
- adultery
- not going to Church
- drinking
- gambling
- sex before marriage
- fighting
- witchcraft
- associated the devil with women
- usually after failed harvests
- fear and anger led to accusations
- persecuted by Puritans
- vagrancy
- pamphlets scared people
- seen as criminals
- travelled in 2s or 3s
- Early Modern (1500-1750)
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