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1700 - 1900 Changing views. - Coggle Diagram
1700 - 1900 Changing views.
1776
- The end of transportation to America.
1778
- Transportation to Australia starts.
1857
- Transportation ends completely.
The bloody code
1789
- Last woman buried for murdering her husband.
1808
- Sir Samuel Romilly gets law passed to stop death penalty for pickpocketing.
1828
- Last beheading - Cato Street conspirators tries to assassinate entire government.
1820s - 1830s
- Abolition of nearly all capital crimes.
1841
- Only murder and treason remain a capital offence.
1868
- Last public hanging took place.
1688
- Bloody code introduced.
John Howard
1774
Gaol Act
Improving health and sanitation in prisons
Believed that improving prisons would lead to rehabilitation of more prisoners.
His work influenced the peel prisons reforms.
Elizabeth Fry
1813
starts visiting women in Newgate prison.
Set up education classes.
Helped to reform prisoners through the edcation.
Got prisoners better food and clothes.
Treated prisoners with kindness and respect.
Her work influenced the peel prisons reforms.
Views were changing on the purpose of punishments and to help reform more prisoners to hopefully stop reoffending through education rather than pure punishments.