AN INFORMATION BOOKLET FOR GCSE STUDENTS OF CRIME, POLICING AND PUNISHMENT. THIS BOOKLET CAN BE USED AS A GUIDE TO THE COURSE AND AS A REVISION TOOL. THIS INFORMATION BOOKLET COVERS THE CAUSES OF CRIME ONLY. THE SPECIFICATION FOLLOWED IS DETAILED BELOW:
• Key Question One: What were the main causes and types of crime in Wales and England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
• The problem of vagrancy
• (causes e.g.: poverty, rural depopulation, unemployment; able-bodied poor and deserving poor; rogues and vagabonds)
• • The challenge of heresy
(causes e.g.: changes in religion and religious opposition; attitudes to heretics)
• • Dealing with treason
(definition of treason; a study of the Gunpowder Plot)
• Key Question 2: How did types of crime and their causes change in Wales and England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
• • Increase in smuggling
(reasons for the increase in smuggling; smugglers and excise men; attitudes towards smuggling)
• • Highway robbery
(issues involving stagecoach travel; lack of law enforcement; highwaymen and footpads)
• • The impact of industrialisation
(social and economic change; the development of large towns; examples of unrest leading to crime: Luddism, Swing and Rebecca Riots)
• Key Question Three: Why have there been new causes and types of crime in Wales and England in the twentieth and twenty first centuries?
• The rise of transport crime
(development of the motor car; creation of new crimes such as: car theft, drink driving, traffic offences)
• • The rise of computer crime
(computer fraud; stealing from bank accounts; hacking; viruses; identity theft, etc.)
• • The trend towards violent crime
(IRA bombings; football hooliganism; global terrorism; drugs crime; gun and knife crime)
• Key Question One: What were the main causes and types of crime in Wales and England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
• The problem of vagrancy
• (causes e.g.: poverty, rural depopulation, unemployment; able-bodied poor and deserving poor; rogues and vagabonds)
• • The challenge of heresy
(causes e.g.: changes in religion and religious opposition; attitudes to heretics)
• • Dealing with treason
(definition of treason; a study of the Gunpowder Plot)
• Key Question 2: How did types of crime and their causes change in Wales and England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
• • Increase in smuggling
(reasons for the increase in smuggling; smugglers and excise men; attitudes towards smuggling)
• • Highway robbery
(issues involving stagecoach travel; lack of law enforcement; highwaymen and footpads)
• • The impact of industrialisation
(social and economic change; the development of large towns; examples of unrest leading to crime: Luddism, Swing and Rebecca Riots)
• Key Question Three: Why have there been new causes and types of crime in Wales and England in the twentieth and twenty first centuries?
• The rise of transport crime
(development of the motor car; creation of new crimes such as: car theft, drink driving, traffic offences)
• • The rise of computer crime
(computer fraud; stealing from bank accounts; hacking; viruses; identity theft, etc.)
• • The trend towards violent crime
(IRA bombings; football hooliganism; global terrorism; drugs crime; gun and knife crime)
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