WorksheetsLesson 1: Crime & Punishment - Overview
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 30mins
Which period of history took place between the years c.1700-c.1900?
Medieval
Early Modern
18th & 19th centuries
Anglo-Saxon
What do we call the historical period AFTER the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
Anglo-Saxon
Norman
Later Medieval
Early Modern
In which period of history would we find out information about the laws of the Tudor and Stuart monarchy?
Medieval
Early Modern
Twentieth century
18th & 19th century
Which historical period does our study of crime and punishment begin with?
Anglo-Saxon
Norman
Late Medieval
Early Modern
Which key terms means a punishment which results in a person's death?
Corporal punishment
Capital punishment
Treason
Reformation
Which term defines the planned and intentional action of killing another person?
Treason
Heresy
Murder
Manslaughter
Which key terms define the action of rebelling or challenging the official religion of a country?
Treason
Murder
Heresy
Fraud
Which key term defines the punishment of causing physical harm to a criminal?
Heresy
Capital punishment
Corporal punishment
Reformation
Which key term defines the crime of conning a person in order to gain money?
Heresy
Treason
Hate crime
Fraud
Which key term defines the crime of using violence with the main aim of bringing about a religious or political change in a country?
Terrorism
Fraud
Witchcraft
Heresy
What does the term 'decriminalise' mean?
Making something illegal/against the law
Changing an action that was illegal into an action that is now legal again.
A person who no longer commits a crime
What is the punishment of 'maiming'?
Putting a criminal in prison
Burning a criminal on their body
Physically harming by cutting/taken away a body part
Throwing rotten fruit at a person at the stocks
Which of the following terms links to a method of LAW ENFORCEMENT?
Murder
Prisons
Stocks and pillory
The police
Which of the following can explain why an aspect of crime and punishment will change over time?
Population increase
Scientific progress
The role of key individuals
Religion
All of the options
During which historical era will we study the terrorist acts of the Gunpowder Plot?
Medieval
1900 - present day
Early Modern
Anglo-Saxon
