1. 2018 GCSE Year 10 Mock Exam Always read the question carefully.
Be familiar with the key terms.
Know the topics as well as possible and add detail.

2. Q1: Identify one similarity and one difference in changing attitudes to crime and punishment.
Sources A and C both show that in the 15th and 21st centuries criminals were often punished in public.
Sources A and B both show a difference in attitudes from public humiliation to separate imprisonment.

3. Q2: Which of the two sources is more reliable to an historian studying the nature of criminal activity over time? (6)
Source D – heresy. Exaggerated. ‘ dangerous plots are practised daily.’
Source E- protest. (Luddites). Shows what new crime was happening at the time.

4. Q3: Describe the methods of combatting crime in the medieval period
Hue and cry
Tithing/Hundredman
Sheriff
JPs/Parish Constable/ Nightwatchmen
Public punishment

5. Poor conditions.- prison fever/ Bridewells Corrupt- no wages
Q4: Explain why the prison system was in need of reform by the 19th century. (9)
By 1800.
Poor conditions.- prison fever/ Bridewells
Corrupt- no wages
Idea changed- prison now seen as a place to make prisoners better. (rehabilitation)
Growing prison population because transportation had ended by 1840.
Key fact: 1823 Gaols Act brought better conditions.

6. Q5: Outline how responsibility for enforcing law and order has changed from c. 500 to the present
Who is in charge?.
One paragraph for each era.
SPaG
1. Medieval- Jps/Tithing/Hundredman/ Sheriff/ Courts
2. Tudor/Stuart- JPs/Parish
3. Constable/Nightwatchmen
4. Industrial- JPs/ Bow Street Runners/ Met Police
5. Present- Judges/ Courts/ Police/ CSO/

7. Q6a:Describe two main features of life in the East End of London which led to crime in the late 19th century. (8)
Poor visibility and lighting. Thick fog- ‘peasoupers.’ Local council would not invest in street lights.
Narrow streets. Easy to escape and hide in rookeries.
Poverty. People turned to crime to survive.

8. Q6b: Explain why increased crime in the East End led to changes in policing in the late 19th century.
Profiling of suspects
Mug-shots and facial measurements to reconstruct sketches.
Plain clothes police.
Identity parades
Criminal profiling