Year 6 · History · A theme through time · Lesson 3

Georgians to today

Crime and punishment from the Georgians to today: the Bloody Code, transportation to Australia, Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police (1829), Victorian prisons, the end of the death penalty for murder (1965) and modern justice.

14-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

Describe the Bloody Code
Explain transportation
Explain the founding of the police
Compare past and present justice

The method

Two periods.
Changes and continuities.
Big or small?
Why?

Key words: Bloody Code, transportation, Robert Peel, Metropolitan Police, rehabilitation.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

What was the Bloody Code?

Step 1: Death

Answer: Georgian laws with many crimes punishable by death

Question 2

Roughly how many crimes carried the death penalty by 1800?

Step 1: 200+

Answer: over 200

Question 3

What was the aim of the Bloody Code?

Step 1: Deter

Answer: to deter crime through fear