Some dates relevant to WJCE GCSE History 'Crime and Punishment' (unit 3: thematic study)
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Bloody Code inroduced
Last public execution in Britain
Capital punishment abolished in Britain
Metropolitan Police began
Mandatory for all districts to have a police force
Bow street runners set up
Australia stopped accepting convicts
Capital offences reduced to just five
Gunpowder plot
Begining of transportation
Prisons Act
Borstals set up
Matthew Hopkins witch trial
Luddites
Peterloo Massacre
Swing Riots
Rebecca Riots
Witchcraft especially persecuted
Case study of 'China' in what centuary
