Edexcel GCSE History: Paper 1 Option 10 — Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000-present and Whitechapel, c1870-c1900

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What this course covers

• Topic 1 — c1000–c1500: Crime and punishment in medieval England

  • 1.1 – Nature and changing definitions of criminal activity
  • 1.2 – The nature of law enforcement and punishment
  • 1.3 – The influence of the Church on crime and punishment in the early thirteenth century

• Topic 2 — c1500–c1700: Crime and punishment in early modern England

  • 2.1 – Nature and changing definitions of criminal activity
  • 2.2 – The nature of law enforcement and punishment
  • 2.3 – Case studies

• Topic 3 — c1700–c1900: Crime and punishment in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain

  • 3.1 – Nature and changing definitions of criminal activity
  • 3.2 – The nature of law enforcement and punishment
  • 3.3 – Case studies

• Topic 4 — c1900–present: Crime and punishment in modern Britain

  • 4.1 – Nature and changing definitions of criminal activity
  • 4.2 – The nature of law enforcement and punishment
  • 4.3 – Case studies

• Topic 5 — Whitechapel, c1870–c1900: crime, policing and the inner city

  • 5.1 – The local context of Whitechapel
  • 5.2 – The inhabitants of Whitechapel
  • 5.3 – The organisation of policing in Whitechapel
  • 5.4 – Investigative policing in Whitechapel
  • 5.5 – The national and regional context
  • 5.6 – Knowledge, selection and use of sources for historical enquiries

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