Revision Mindmaps for the Crime and Punishment unit of the Edexcel GCSE History course.

1. Edexcel GCSE History - S H P
Crime and Punishment Unit
Revision Mindmaps – Core content
By Mr Wallbanks

2. Reasons for severe
Attitudes to approach to
crime punishment
The Bloody Code
Guy Fawkes & the The introduction of
Gunpowder Plot Transportation
Theft
Crime and Punishment in
Treason the Early Modern Era Jonathan Wild
(1450- 1700)
Types of Crime
Early
policing
Poaching The Vagabonds
Smuggling
Constables & Hue and Cry
Watchmen

3. Problems of Problems caused by the
policing development of towns
Smuggling
How did the growth of towns Attitudes of law
lead to increases in the makers
number & types of crime?
Response of the
people
Transportation Poaching
The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Attitudes of the
Their crime authorities.

4. Prison conditions
The work of The work of John
Elizabeth Fry Howard
Prison conditions and prison
reformers 1750 – 1900.
The end of
transportation
New prisons/
improvements
Changing attitudes to
the purpose of prison
The end of the Bloody Silent and separate
Code systems
The end of public
execution

5. Opposition to Sir Robert Peel
early police
Early problems/
successes
Later
developments Why the police were
introduced?
The development of the police
force
The army as riot
The Fielding control
Brothers
What did the Bow Street The Peterloo
Runners do? Massacre Dealing with riots
& law and order
Successes Limitations

6. The end of public
executions
Changing attitudes
to punishment
Increasing use
of prisons
How did the nature of punishment
change 1750 - 1900?
The end of the Bloody
Code The end of
transportation

7. Consequences Problems facing the
Events police
How has terrorism
changed the work of
the police
Abolition of
execution
Two Key Events of the 20th Century
Effect on
attitudes to
execution
Who was Derek Bentley? Why his
case is so
important
His punishment
Crime

8. Handling
complaints Specialisation of the
against the police police
Responding to new
types of crime
Changing How policing developed
attitudes to the in the 20th century.
police.
The changing role of
the police
Community Policing Crime prevention &
detecting criminals
Using new
Dealing with technology
terrorism

9. Tax evasion
What effect does new
technology have on crime?
Smuggling?
Computer
crimes
Are there any Race relationship
New crimes or old laws
new crimes ?
in the 21st century?
People Car crime
trafficking How has the government
become involved in the
defining of crime?
Traffic offences

10. Prisons and young people
Changes in the purpose of
prisons
New punishments/
alternatives to prison
How have punishments
changed in the 20th century?
Women in prisons
Why was the
death penalty
abolished?

11. Extension Studies (You must know all 3 inside out as the questions on this are worth
50% of this unit’s mark)
A) Witchcraft in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
•Why were people afraid of witchcraft?
•How did the authorities make this a crime?
•How were witches punished?
•Why did society undergo a witchcraft craze? - You need to focus on the influence of the attitudes in
society on the fear of witches.
•Why did the fear of witchcraft die out?
•Finally you need to be able to identify how the changing of attitudes resulted in changes to the law.
B) Conscientious objection in the twentieth century.
•How were the Conscientious Objectors punished by the authorities in the First and Second World
Wars?
•What were the attitudes in society of the Conscientious Objectors?
•Why was being a CO considered to be a crime in World War One and why did attitudes to being a CO
change?
•How did the changing of attitudes towards being a CO result in changes to the law?
C) Domestic violence in the twentieth century.
•How have attitudes towards domestic violence changed? What caused these changes?
•You need to understand why domestic violence was not considered to be a crime and why attitudes to
domestic violence changed.
•You need to be able to identify how the changing of attitudes resulted in changes to the law.
•You need to understand how authority reacted to domestic violence and how those involved were
punished.

12. Matthew
Hopkins Why did the fear of
witchcraft die out? •Why were people afraid of
witchcraft?
Why did society
undergo a
witchcraft
craze? -
King James I’s book Witchcraft in the sixteenth and Elizabeth I’s
laws
seventeenth centuries.
•How were witches
punished?
•How did the
authorities make
Finally you need to be this a crime?
able to identify how
the changing of King James I
attitudes resulted in
witchcraft laws
changes to the law.
Henry VIII’s laws

13. Second World War
First World War
Punishments
First World War How the law
changed as a result
of changing
attitudes
The attitudes of Conscientious objection in the
the authorities
to COs
twentieth century.
Second World War
Attitudes to C Os by society Why did attitudes to
being a CO change
First World War Second World War

14. The media Protest Jack Erin
groups Ashley Pizzey
What caused these How have attitudes
changes? towards domestic
violence changed?
How those involved
were punished.
Domestic violence in the twentieth
century.
How authority
Why domestic violence was
reacted to domestic How changing not considered to be a crime.
violence. attitudes resulted in
changes to the law.
Why attitudes to
domestic violence
changed.