Crime and punishments throughout time

Have you ever wondered how crimes and punishments have changed throughout the ages? In these pieces of text there will be lots of details of crime and punishments. Thanks to the Romans (even though they invaded us) the Romans helped us with central heating, army and most importantly, crime and punishment.

Romans

There was no police force but there was a group of people called Viglies. If they caught them braking a law or someone telling them he/she was braking the law The Viglies will have every right to get him/she and take he/she to court and if they were stealing the punishment then would be a fine 4 times the value of what they stole, and if they did not pay they would of been pushed off a cliff.

Anglo Saxon

Throughout time the most common crime was petty theft. All eras had there own punishment for this. But I am going to talk the Anglo Saxons. If someone would of stolen let say a piece of bread and been caught they would of been brought to a court (hut) and if the judge could not decide if you were guilty or innocent god would decide if they were guilty or innocent. They would either have dipped your hands into a scalding bucket of water and if they were healed in 3 days you were innocent if not you were guilty.

Tudors

The most common crime in Tudors was theft and the punishment was horrifically horrible. The punishment for stealing was whipping. You would of been tied or chained to a pole in a public area, and you would be stripped to the waist and you would of been whipped. You can get this punishment as minor as stealing a loaf of bread.

Victorians

So far you would think that the Romans were bad but they don not stand a chance compared to the Victorians they hanged children up to 12 years old but they did not hang people below 12 though. They sent them to work, they had jobs like chimney sweep were you would clean somebody’s chimney with a very long brush, and sometimes animals (small animals) would fall down and sometimes hurt the children, and there was a punishment that if you did something wrong to the queen they would nail your ears to a post.

world war 2

Looting was a big problem. The number of bomb properties providing a temptation to looters. Many were given fines or short prison sentence. The amount of murders increased dramatically. Air raids killed so many people and made it almost impossible to investigate only a small few during the war. So thanks to the war their was a spike in murder. But when the war was over when the Germans “Nazis” were defeated, thanks to the Americans, French and a few more countries helped. The most of the police were killed, part of the military was killed and most parts of most countries were also killed. Their was also a shortage of murders. Most people were killed by the Nazis dropping bombs at us with their bomber planes but the way the military died was when they were fighting in he war.  So there, was no actual punishments going on in world war 2, so for world war 2 it was actually just crime no punishment!!

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