In this video, historian Alice Loxton give a summary of crime and punishment in 18th and 19th century Britain.

In the 18th Century BC, the Code of King Hammurabi ... it was too severe for the crime; 2) it was arbitrary (some get the punishment and others do not, without guidelines); 3) it offends society ...

Cesare Beccaria, the 18th-century Italian criminologist and ... should be allowed to take an individual’s life as punishment for a crime. Asahi Shimbun editorials have been calling for ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Prisoners at Pentonville prison spent nearly all their time alone and in their cells, for as many as 23 hours in ...