Crime, Punishment and Protest – Revision Checklist

EDEXCEL EXAM
These are the topics that could well appear in your final exams.

PAPER ONE , 2008 (1 hour Crime, 1 hour American West)

Topic Notes Exam Rate your
Question self

You will face three questions about ANY of the topics below – in which you must show understanding of
how attitudes, behaviour and events have CHANGED OVER TIME. This will total 25 marks of Paper
One

The Core: c1450-c1750

Crime and punishment in early Tudor period
Treatment of vagabonds and sturdy beggars
Highwaymen – the rise and fall
The treatment of women – domestic abuse, scold’s bridles,
ducking stools etc
Local law enforcement – Charleys, JPs
Capital punishment – treason and heresy – beheadings,
hanging drawing and quartering etc
Attitudes to minor punishment - stocks, pillory , whipping,
branding and imprisonment
Attitudes to ‘social crimes’ - poaching and smuggling

The core: c1750-c1900

Bloody Code and Public Executions
Pickpockets and ‘artful dodgers’
Transportation – beginning and end
The rise of the prison system
Robert Peel and the development of professional police
force
Prison reforms: John Howard & Elizabeth Fry

The Core: c1900 – the present day

New crimes or updated old crimes? Theft: shoplifting; car
theft; computer crimes; identity theft; fraud; white-collar
crimes like tax evasion; people smuggling
Punishments – alternatives to prison e.g. probation;
community service; ASBOs; electronic tagging
Changing attitudes to capital punishment – the abolition of
hanging; Derek Bentley; Ruth Ellis
Changing role of the police; crime prevention
Recent debate on law and order (1975-2005)
Impact of immigration – race relations
Extension Topics – You may choose to answer questions on
ONE of these themes – which will cover these topics (15mks) :
1 Crime and punishment in the Ancient World and the Middle Ages
Ideas about crime, and approaches to law enforcement and punishment in: Ancient Rome; Anglo-Saxon
England; Medieval England to c1450.
The response of authority and the use of the law.
2 The nature of protest and government response
Social and economic protest: the Kett rebellion.
Demands for political reform: suffragettes.
 Response to industrial change: the General Strike.
The response of authority and the use of the law and methods of law enforcement.
3 Changing views of the nature of criminal activity
Witchcraft in the seventeenth century.
The Tolpuddle martyrs.
Conscientious objection in the twentieth century.
The response of authority and the use of the law.
Nominated Topics for Paper 2 – 2008 (100mins)

You will face another exam, all about your skills in dealing with sources. It will ONLY cover the topics
below:

2008: Law Enforcement and Protest in the twentieth and early twenty-first
centuries
Conscientious Objectors and their treatement in
both World Wars
Poll Tax Protests 1990-2
Responding to Terrorism: London Bombing July
7 2005

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RESOURCES, LINKS AND GAMES:

www.schoolhistory.co.uk/revision/crime

TOPIC KNOWLEDGE, REVISION GUIDES:

www.learnhistory.org.uk/cpp

ONLINE TEXTBOOK AND SOURCES:

www.learningcurve.gov.uk/candp/

MORE QUIZZES COMING SOON:

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Textbooks: any GCSE History book called ‘Crime, Punishment and/or Protest Through
Time’ is suitable.
Authors include – Stephen Lee, Allan Todd, Ian Dawson, Christopher Culpin, Angela
Anderson, Aaron Wilkes...