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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment. By: Dale , Odin and Lucas. Crime . By: Lucas. By: Dale Bartnik. Elizabethan Era Punishment. The Warning. Torture. The Rack. Execution. Poverty Crimes in Elizabethan England. By: Odin P. The Poor Population.

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Crime and Punishment

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  1. Crime and Punishment By: Dale , Odin and Lucas
  2. Crime By: Lucas
  3. By: Dale Bartnik

    Elizabethan Era Punishment

  4. The Warning
  5. Torture
  6. The Rack
  7. Execution
  8. Poverty CrimesinElizabethan England By: Odin P
  9. The Poor Population There were three groups, the upper class/royalty, nobility, and every everyone else. 2% of population owned land or wealth 15% of population completely relied on charity to survive. With such a large portion of population with such a low quality of living, the majority of crimes committed were by the poor.
  10. Begging Most common crime committed in the Elizabethan era was begging. This was seen as a serious crime, and was seen as bad as stealing Vagrants were not welcomed in society
  11. What is considered a“Vagrant”? Old Disabled Diseased homeless Orphan/Fatherless Wizards Palm readers Tinkers Unlicensed healers Some times even minstrels!
  12. Punishments for Begging First offence: whipping, burning on the ear or both. Second offence: Hanging till death Sometimes the children would be put into apprenticeships, or able bodied vagrants would liable to be enslaved.
  13. The Poor Laws 1571- Cadging leftovers from neighbours was only legal form of begging 1572- unlicensed performers, servicemen, healers, required masters. 1572- Parliament gave weekly doles to poor households 1576- Towns were required to supply unemployed craftsmen with raw materials so they could sell final products. 1590- started to ship of the poor to the new world.
  14. Shakespeare Any travellers who wished to go from city to city would have required a license. ( to avoid the spread of disease) All travellers required to have certain safety items with them when travelling (rules varied depending on city) Actors weren't seen as much better than a vagrant or beggar. Shakespeare friends and family would have worried greatly for him during his travels
  15. Finalized Poor Law -To levy a compulsory poor rate on every parish -To provide working materials -Provide work apprenticeships for children who were orphaned or parents could not support them -Offer relief to the “deserving”poor -Collect a poor relief from property owners -Children are expected to live with parents, and elderly parents are expected to live with their children.
  16. Tid-Bits of info -Salaries varied from £140.5 a day to £0.05 a day -There are many forms of Vagrants. Such as, rufflers, prigmans, uprightmen, curtals, jackmen, kitchen morts, patriarches, and vegabonds. -4-5% of population got poor relief -Children were expected to work at the age of 7 -The riche were even treated better in prison than the poor.
  17. The End
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