Exam 2: Crime and Punishment in History

During the medieval period a form of neighbourhood watch existed and their duties were to:

In what year was the 'new police' established by Sir Robert Peel?

What year was the post of public prosecutor created?

There was a substantial prison-building programme at the end of the eighteenth century.

The prison is a relatively modern invention

During the period between 1850 and 1950 the army could 'read the riot act' and this would mean that:

Why did the idea of supervision of offenders arise?

What period saw the establishment the formal criminal justice system we know today?

Keeping order and in preventing and investigating crime we have always relied upon a police force, or something that looks like a police force.

Although property crimes rose in the second half of the eighteenth century and were significantly higher at the close of the century than they were at its beginning, by contrast, homicide appears to drop markedly. Why was this?

Peel's 'new police' officers were dressed in blue to:

What is the difference between: 'imprisonment' and 'penal servitude' ?

All sections of the community welcomed the 'new police'

By 1950 public trust in policing was extremely high due to:

What did the German sociologist Norbert Elias refers to as the 'civilising process'?

To what does the 'Bloody Code' refer?

After the War of Independence in the 1770s, America no longer represented a potential destination for Britain's convicts and so they were housed in large 'hulks' moored off the south coast of England.

Police forces of the nineteenth century gradually acquired a very broad array of functions, including:

Which of the following are known as approaches to police history?