CRIME, PUNISHMENT AND PROTEST: Introduction; THE ANCIENT WORLD: The first written laws; early Roman law and its principles; Roman law in practice; crime and punishment; the collapse of the Roman Empire and its legacy; Review: law in the Ancient World; THE MIDDLE AGES: 500-1450: Anglo-Saxon law; law after the Norman conquest; the extension of royal justice; challenges to authority; women and the law; Review: law in the Middle Ages; EARLY MODERN BRITAIN: 1450-1750: population growth; poverty, bagabonds and 'sturdy beggars'; the punishment of 'common criminals'; traitors and heretics; case study: Kett's Rebellion, 1549; local law enforcement; women, witch-hunts and the law; Review: law in Early Modern Britain; INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN; 1750 -1900: industrialisation and crime; changing views about the causes of crime; pickpockets, 'garotters' and murderers; rioters and protesters: case study: the Tolpuddle Martyrs; case study: the London Dock Strike, 1889; law enforcement and the Bloody Code; the Age of Reform: policing; the Age of Reform: prisons; young people and crime; women and the law; Review: law in Industrial Britain; MODERN BRITAIN: 1900 - present; poverty, prosperity and crime statistics; from theft to terrorism; new technologies, new crimes; rioters and protesters: case study: conscientious objectors; case study: the General Strike, 1926; case study: the poll tax protests, 1990-92; changes in policing; changing attitudes to punishment; case study: Derek Bentley; young people and crime; case study: the suffragettes; Review: law in Modern Britain
