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1. What period Early Medieval/middle ages (1000-1500)
was Anglo-Sax-
on England in?
2. Revenge action taken in return for an injury or offense
3. Retribution Very harsh punishments
4. Removal Removing someone from society
5. Reform Giving someone a change to change
6. deterrent something that discourages or hinders, all punishments
are a form of it
7. Crimes against Assault, murder, cause physical harm to someone
people
8. Crimes against Theft, robbery, arson, involve taking or damaging property
property of someone
9. Crimes against Treason, impersonation, witchcraft, actions that threaten
authority social structure could be classed as it eg. Starting a fight
with a noble
10. Treason Betraying the king
11. What were 3 im- Power and influence of the king over c and p grew, role of
portant trends in the Christian church grew, use of punishments, including
crime and pun- capital punishment, increased.
ishment in this
period?
12. What happened Alfred the Great started to unify all laws in England, by
in the 880s 937, most of England had been unified
13. What was c and Communities had made their own laws, the system was
p like before the quite basic and relaxed and relied on local customs
kings peace?
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14. King's peace The Saxon idea that it was the king's duty to take care
of law and order so people could go about their lives
knowing they were safe
15. Role of the King Rules the country, decides new laws and issues code of
in the time period law, responsible for keeping the King's peace
16. Role of the No- Given land by the king, ensuring their loyalty to him -
bles in the time wealthy and powerful, some can advise and persuade the
period king when making new laws, appoint shire reeves to make
sure people follow the king's law. Responsible for keeping
the King's peace in their local area.
17. Role of the freed- Rent or own a small piece of land, no say in making the
men in the time law
period
18. Role of serfs Own no land and work for others for very low pay, no say
in law making but kept loyal because they were forced
because they had to follow the laws
19. What was the They were growing in importance, the huge growth in
problem in c1000 trade meaning communities grew larger so there were
in English towns more opportunities to commit crimes and it was easier to
such as Lunden- get away with them.
wic?
20. collective re- Being responsible for the actions of other members of
sponsibility your group. In a village community, if somebody broke the
law it was up to everyone in the village to take action.
21. Reeve A local official, appointed from the community.
22. Moral crimes Actions that didn't physically harm anyone, or their prop-
erty, but didn't match up to society's views on decent
behaviour: for example, having sex outside marriage or
not sticking to the rules and customs of the church.
23. Saxons believed The role of the local community in policing the behaviour
that: of others was very important.
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God was the final judge of innocence or guilt.
The status and position of different groups should be clear
in law.
It was a victims responsibility to seek justice if a crime was
committed, but also that the whole community should play
a part in delivering justice.
24. hue and cry Anyone who witnessed a crime could raise a 'hue and cry'
by shouting for help. Everyone who heard it was expected
to help chase and capture the suspects.
25. King's shire Man appointed locally bring criminals to justice.
reeve
26. oath A formal declaration of the facts, calling on God to witness
that what is said is true.
27. What did An- Religion when deciding if someone was innocent or guilty,
glo-Saxon jus- oaths would be used and hearings took place in public.
tice rely heavily
on and how was
this shown?
28. How did hun- English Shires were divided into smaller areas called
dreds and hundreds, each one divided into 10 tithings. All the men
tithings work? over 12 in a tithing were responsible for the behaviour of
all of the others. One man from each hundred and tithing
meeting regularly with the Shire Reeve. Their role was to
prevent crime.
29. Trial by Ordeal A form of law enforcement, NOT PUNISHMENT. When
the accused was tried by the Church authorities to test
if they were guilty or innocent in the eyes of God. Super-
vised by the clergy. Hot iron, cold water or hot water trials.
30. Hot iron trial heat was used to burn the accused hands, which were
then bandaged and if they healed well it was seen as a
sign that God judged them to be innocent.
31. Cold water trial
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