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1 YEAR 4 UNIT 3 – Summer Crime and Punishment How has Crime and Punishment changed over time? Rising Stars 2019 © Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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YEAR 4 UNIT 3 – Summer
Crime and PunishmentHow has Crime and Punishment
changed over time?
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Week 1
Do laws and punishments change over time?
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Learning objective
To understand how and why laws and punishments change over time.
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Success criteria
• I can explain how laws and punishments change over time.
• I can give valid reasons why some laws change and some remain the same.
• I understand why different groups in society view laws in a variety of ways.
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5Key vocabularyCan you create definitions for these words as you learn about Crime and Punishment?
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Word Definition
Rules
Society
Crime
Punishment
Values
Poaching
Witchcraft
Riot
Pillory
Transportation
Flogging
Attitudes
6Here are the rules that we have in our school
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What would our class be like
if we did not have rules?
7What happens if we do not follow or we break the rules?
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Are there any consequences for breaking
the rules in school?
Are there any rewards and incentives to make sure we
follow the rules?
8These are the rules from a Victorian school
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Punishments
Being beaten with a birch cane.
Wearing the dunce’s cap.
Being beaten with the strap (a piece of leather or a leather belt).
A rap on the knuckles with a ruler.
A clip round the ear (hitting the side of a child’s head).
Writing the same sentence 100 times (writing lines).
Wearing a ‘backboard’ (a piece of wood to stop slouching).
Putting fidgeting fingers into the ‘finger stocks’ which held children’s fingers behind their back.
Rules
Stand up when the teacher enters the room.
Stand up to answer questions.
Do not ask questions.
Only speak when given permission.
Do not talk or fidget.
You may only write with your right hand.
You must not be late.
You must call your teachers ‘Sir’, ‘Miss’ or ‘Madam’.
Do not fight or hurt one another.
Do not deface or damage school property.
Girls will learn cooking and sewing while boys learn woodwork and shoemaking.
9One of the biggest changes is that physical punishments
and humiliation are no longer used
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10A list of crimes from history
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Sort them into two groups.
Those that are still considered crimes today.
Why are they still classed as crimes today?
Those that no longer considered crimes.
Why have these changed or disappeared?
11Sequence the crimes into when they became illegal
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Which period of history would they have been
seen as crimes?
Create a caption to explain the time period or approximate
dates for when each was seen as a crime.
12Crimes over time: the answers
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Murder – Always
Murder has probably been illegal forever;
‘Thou shalt not kill’ is one of the Ten
Commandments in the Bible.
Pickpocketing – 1535–present day
Pickpocketing has probably always been illegal, but it was
made a capital offence (punished by death) in 1535.
Witchcraft – 1542–1951
In 1542, Witchcraft was made illegal, punished by death. In 1736, they
changed the punishment to a fine or a year’s imprisonment. The last
person to be jailed for witchcraft was Helen Duncan in 1944. The law was
not removed until 1951!
Christmas – 1644–1660
In 1644, Oliver Cromwell’s parliament banned the celebration of Christmas. King Charles II reinstated Christmas in
1660.
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Crimes over time: the answers
Poaching – 1660s–present day
Poaching has been a crime since the 1600s, and is still a
crime now.
Smuggling – 1700s–present day
In the late 1600s and throughout the 1700s, the British
government taxed any goods that came in to the country. This
led to a huge rise in people smuggling goods in more
cheaply.
Rioting – 1714–present day
The Riot Act of 1714 was a law that allowed police to punish a crowd of 12 or
more people. Although the law has changed since (and
the punishment is less strict), rioting is still a crime.
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Crimes over time: the answers
Car theft – 1880–present day
Cars were invented in France and Germany in the 1880s, so we can assume
that stealing a car became a crime soon after that.
Vandalism – 1861–present day
Vandalism is criminal damage, and has been
illegal since 1861.
Highway robbery – Middle Ages–1800s
Highway Robbery has existed since the Middle
Ages, but became a problem in the Industrial Revolution of the 1700s, when better
roads made travel, and robbery, more possible. The last series of prosecutions of Highway Robbery at the Old
Bailey was in the 1830s.
15Crimes are grouped into three headings
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Property People Authority
Classify the cards under the headings you think they best fit under.
16Images of punishments over time
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Which of the punishments are still used today?
Why do we no longer use the other punishments?
17Why have attitudes on crime and acceptable
punishments changed over time?
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the views of the government
religionwar
new ideas and beliefs
the work of individuals or campaigns to change views
