Crime And Punishment In The 18th Century

What would happen if you got shipped to a different country just because you stole something? There are many types of punishment there is hanging, torture, prison, and many other ways. Douglas Hays, J.M Beattie, J.A.Sharpe, and Manuel Eisner have done there research to prove what kind of crime and punishment there were. One fact is, “From the assumption that criminal law broadly expresses the social norm, it is easy to conclude that crime of all kinds is deviance.” Says Douglas Hays. There is a lot more information about crime which will be show in this next paragraph. According to Douglas Hays there are many different types of punishment back in the eighteenth century. Crime was going up very fast, to the point where there were crimes they didn 't even know existed. Some people in London were hanged, there were about one hundred a year, a few were score pillared, and publicly flogged. Most offenders were never prosecuted, and if they were convicted of a serious crime they were shipped over seas. “ For almost all enlightenment convicted in the courts now served terms imprisonment, under an austere discipline” says Douglas Hays. In conclusion in the eighteenth

Beattie he says there has been so much crime in London during the eighteenth century. “There is a mass commend throughout the century about a rising tide of crime and especially about the danger of violent crime in London.” Says J.M. Beattie. After 1689 there were a lot more petty crime for which capital punishment was assigned. In 1689 about fifty people were sentenced to death penalty, and that comes were added thereafter at a rate of more than a year. The increasing cruelty of the law was perhaps tempered in practice. The extension of the death penalty led to more and more crimes crimes against property by elimination of benefit of clergy. In conclusion crime has gone up a lot during the eighteenth century, because they didn 't do much to stop the people that did the